Clarifying the effect of facial emotional expression on inattentional blindness.

Clarifying the effect of facial emotional expression on inattentional blindness. Conscious Cogn. 2020 Nov 19;87:103050 Authors: Redlich D, Memmert D, Kreitz C Abstract Conscious perception often fails when an object appears unexpectedly and our attention is focused elsewhere (inattentional blindness). While various factors have been identified as determinants of inattentional blindness, the influence of an unexpected object́s semantic value remains ambiguous. This is also true for the supposedly evolutionary meaning of faces; some studies found higher detection rates for faces while others did not or used control conditions that differed in physical aspects of the stimulus as well. In the proposed studies we aim to replicate and clarify the effect of the semantic value of faces on inattentional blindness in a controlled and systematic manner. PMID: 33221474 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Consciousness and Cognition - Category: Neurology Authors: Tags: Conscious Cogn Source Type: research