1 Also known as perceptual blindness.

2 The seminal work on inattentional blindness is Inattentional Blindness by Arien Mack and Irvin Rock, The MIT Press, 1998. See also “Gorillas in Our Midst: Sustained Inattentional Blindness for Dynamic Events” by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris, Perception, 1999, vol. 28(9), p. 1059–1074; and “Selective Looking: Attending to Visually Specified Events” by Ulric Neisser and Robert Becklen, Cognitive Psychology, 1975, vol. 7, p. 480–494.

3 See, for example, “What You See Is What You Set: Sustained Inattentional Blindness and the Capture of Awareness” by Steven Most, Brian Scholl, Erin Clifford, et al., Psychological Review, 2005, vol. 112(1), p. 217–242.

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