Abstract
Recent debates over the role of consciousness in perception have centred on ‘inattentional blindness’, thus relating attention and perception directly to consciousness 1. Simons D.J. Attentional capture and inattentional blindness. Trends Cognit. Sci. 2000; 4: 147-155 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (377) Google Scholar . We have all had the experience of looking without seeing. In such cases of ‘sighted blindness’ we become aware that perceiving requires more than opening our eyes. Even relatively large changes to a naturalistic scene can go undetected if the change occurred during brief visual disruption and such instances have been called ‘change blindness’. Inattentional blindness and change blindness suggest that perception can be influenced by attentional inhibitory processes, thus challenging a purely data-driven and/or automatic account of perception.
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