Thinking and Seeing: Visual Metacognition in Adults and Children

by Daniel T. Levin

Experimental research has shown that people miss apparently obvious visual discontinuities--a phenomenon known as "change blindness." For example, in one experiment, subjects watching a brief film of a conversation between two actors did not notice that in some shots one actor appeared wearing a large, colorful scarf and in other shots she wore no scarf; in another experiment, subjects did not even notice when one actor was replaced by another...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262621819
• ISBN13: 9780262621816
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher