Many people believe that merely by opening their eyes, they see everything in their field of view; in fact, a line of psychological research has been taken as evidence of the existence of so-called preattentional perception. In Inattentional Blindness, Arien Mack and Irvin Rock make the radical claim that there is no such thing--that there is no conscious perception of the visual world without attention to it.The authors present a narrative chronicle of their research. Thus, the reader follows the trail that led to the final conclusions, learning why initial hypotheses and explanations were discarded or revised, and how new questions arose along the way. The phenomenon of inattentional blindness has theoretical importance for cognitive psychologists studying perception, attention, and consciousness, as well as for philosophers and neuroscientists interested in the problem of consciousness.
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"Likely to become a landmark.... In contrast toearlier physiologically inspired models of visual attention, this bookwhets our appetite for a new, richer, and fuller understanding ofperception and its relation to conscious and unconscious mentalprocessing." Ken Nakayama, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
"This may be one of those rare instances where a single body of work(and in a seemingly overstudied area), almost single-handedly, canoverturn prevailing ideas. This type of work helps to elevate thediscipline of experimental psychology to its deserved place inunderstanding the mind and brain." Ken Nakayama ,Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
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Arien Mack is the Alfred and Monetter Marrow Professor of Psychology at the New School for Social Research. Irvin Rock was Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, until his death in July 1995.
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- Is the Visual World a Grand Illusion? (Journal of Consciousness Studies Controversies in Science & the Humanities) by Alva Noe on 10 pages
- Visual Attention (Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science) by Richard D. Wright on page 55, page 66, and page 68
- Cognition and the Brain: The Philosophy and Neuroscience Movement by Andrew Brook in Front Matter, page 406, and page 434
- Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin on page 50, page 65, and Back Matter
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