The dark side of visual awareness in sport: Inattentional blindness in a real-world basketball task

Furley, Philip; Memmert, Daniel; Heller, Christian

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“…IB has theoretical importance, highlighting the extent to which our attention determines our perception, and profound practical implications, through its contribution to understanding incidents such as Blooked-but-failed-to-see^road crashes (Beanland, Lenné, & Rößger, 2015). IB has been consistently demonstrated in both computerised displays (Beanland & Pammer, 2010a, b;Mack & Rock, 1998;Most et al, 2001) and naturalistic stimuli (Furley, Memmert, & Heller, 2010;Neisser, 1979;Simons, 2010;Simons & Chabris, 1999). The archetypal IB experiment entails an attention-consuming primary task, often presented in isolation for several trials before an unexpected stimulus is added during the critical inattention trial.…”

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The relationship between sustained inattentional blindness and working memory capacity

Beanland

Chan

2016

Atten Percept Psychophys

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Inattentional blindness, whereby observers fail to detect unexpected stimuli, has been robustly demonstrated in a range of situations. Originally research focused primarily on how stimulus characteristics and task demands affect inattentional blindness, but increasingly studies are exploring the influence of observer characteristics on the detection of unexpected stimuli. It has been proposed that individual differences in working memory capacity predict inattentional blindness, on the assumption that higher working memory capacity confers greater attentional capacity for processing unexpected stimuli. Unfortunately, empirical investigations of the association between inattentional blindness and working memory capacity have produced conflicting findings. To help clarify this relationship, we examined the relationship between inattentional blindness and working memory capacity in two samples (Ns = 195, 147) of young adults. We used three common variants of sustained inattentional blindness tasks, systematically manipulating the salience of the unexpected stimulus and primary task practice. Working memory capacity, measured by automated operation span (both Experiments 1 & 2) and N-back (Experiment 1 only) tasks, did not predict detection of the unexpected stimulus in any of the inattentional blindness tasks tested. Together with previous research, this undermines claims that there is a robust relationship between inattentional blindness and working memory capacity. Rather, it appears that any relationship between inattentional blindness and working memory is either too small to have practical significance or is moderated by other factors and consequently varies with attributes such as the sample characteristics within a given study.

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The relationship between sustained inattentional blindness and working memory capacity

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2016

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“…Visual search data verified that the attention 14 of each instructional group (i.e. LOOSE and TTF) was directed towards the loose defender 15 and the first clear option, respectively. Moreover, a difference was found in the loose player 16 display where the LOOSE group attended to the loose defender more than the TTF group 17 and, conversely, the TTF group fixated on the player providing a strong central lead (A2D2) 18 more than the LOOSE group.…”

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“…These three trials all had one common 13 feature -there was a strong lead drawing the decision selection of the TTF group, but it was 14 not considered the correct decision by the coaching panel. When visual search patterns were 15 analysed in these three scenarios, no differences were observed among the groups. We 16 therefore speculate that, despite attending to the same locations as the LOOSE group, the 17 TTF group did not make the correct decision due to adherence to their instruction.…”

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“…a mental shortcut that 13 reduces decision-making time) to cope with the demands of complex scenarios such as those 14 faced in team field sports. Raab and Johnson (2003) have argued that performers 15 predominantly "take the first" (TTF) option generated when making decisions. This heuristic 16 (i.e.…”

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“…The third hypothesis was that lesser experienced performers would be more 20 influenced by instructional foci than their more experienced counterparts. This prediction was 21 based on research that has examined the effect that performer experience has on the influence 22 of instructions (Furley, et al, 2010). given by all participants.…”

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A systematic overview of methods, their limitations, and their opportunities to investigate inattentional blindness

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During the past two decades, the interest in investigating the phenomenon of inattentional blindness strongly increased and resulted in a fraying of paradigms investigating this specific failure of awareness. We reviewed 129 full-text articles containing 219 experiments for their design and methods to create awareness for the growing variety of inattentional blindness paradigms. Also, we promote a deliberate use of future paradigms (proposedly based on their functionality and representativeness) to improve the transferability of research findings to the real world. In general, we argue that paradigms should be well-chosen based on the respective purpose, as the concept of inattentional blindness represents most likely several subtypes with different underlying mechanisms rather than a single phenomenon. Finally, we propose to include expectancy as a continuous variable into the definition of inattentional blindness rather than using it as an exclusion criterion.

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The dark side of visual awareness in sport: Inattentional blindness in a real-world basketball task

Cited by 65 publications

References 40 publications

The relationship between sustained inattentional blindness and working memory capacity

The relationship between sustained inattentional blindness and working memory capacity

Examining the influence of acute instructional approaches on the decision-making performance of experienced team field sport players

A systematic overview of methods, their limitations, and their opportunities to investigate inattentional blindness

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