Inattentional Blindness (Cognitive Psychology) [Hardcover]

Arien Mack (Author), Irvin Rock (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 27, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0262133393 | ISBN-13: 978-0262133395 | Edition: 1

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"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

About the Author

Arien Mack is the Alfred and Monette 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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 296 pages
• Publisher: A Bradford Book; 1 edition (March 27, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0262133393
• ISBN-13: 978-0262133395
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,626,700 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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