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--- abstract: "Changes made during a brief visual interruption sometimes go undetected, even when the object undergoing the change is at the center of the observer's interest and spatial attention (Simons & Levin, 1998). This study examined two potentially important attentional variables in change blindness: spatial distribution, manipulated via set size, and detail level, varied by having the change at either the global or local level of a compound letter. Experiment 1 revealed that both types of change were equally detectable in a single item, but that global change was detected more readily when attention was distributed among several items. Variation of target level probability in Experiment 2 showed further that observers could flexibly set the detail level in monitoring both single and multiple items. Sensitivity to change therefore depends not only on the spatial focus of attention; it depends critically on the match between the detail level of the change and the level-readiness of the observer." altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Austen given: Erin honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Enns given: James T. honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2000-10 date_type: published datestamp: 2000-10-23 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/10/55 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: Wilkens given: Patrick honourific: '' lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 1055 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/1055/3/psyche%2D6%2D11%2Dausten.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'change blindness, local perception, global perception, visual search, attention.' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:25 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: 11 pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: Psyche publisher: Psyche refereed: TRUE referencetext: |- Amirkhiabani, G., & Lovegrove, W.J. 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