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The Effect Of An Auditory Stimulus On Change Blindness, Shane Mccormack
The Effect Of An Auditory Stimulus On Change Blindness, Shane Mccormack
HIM 1990-2015
This research examined whether or not an auditory stimulus would affect rates of change blindness. Change blindness occurs when there is a failure to detect an obvious change to a visual scene. For this experiment 40 participants were asked to determine if a change occurred between two pictures. This involved an original picture shown for 1 second, a neutral screen shown for 50 milliseconds and then either a modified version of the original image or the same image for 1 second and then repeated. Participants then determined whether a change occurred in the visual display. For some participants a familiar …