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selective attention test

Uploaded on Mar 10, 2010 by Daniel Simons [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoUA-CpKaFCCV2Uz__qNJZw / http://www.youtube.com/user/profsimons , http://www.youtube.com/user/profsimons/videos ]

The original, world-famous awareness test from Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo [comments disabled]


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Brief mindfulness induction reduces inattentional blindness
Consciousness and Cognition
Volume 37, December 2015, Pages 63–70
Highlights
• We experimentally manipulated mindful states and cognitive depletion.
• Mindful states increased declarative awareness of an unexpected distractor.
• Depletion increased the detail with which the unexpected distractor was encoded.
Abstract
Prior research has linked mindfulness to improvements in attention, and suggested that the effects of mindfulness are particularly pronounced when individuals are cognitively depleted or stressed. Yet, no studies have tested whether mindfulness improves declarative awareness of unexpected stimuli in goal-directed tasks. Participants (N = 794) were either depleted (or not) and subsequently underwent a brief mindfulness induction (or not). They then completed an inattentional blindness task during which an unexpected distractor appeared on the computer monitor. This task was used to assess declarative conscious awareness of the unexpected distractor’s presence and the extent to which its perceptual properties were encoded. Mindfulness increased awareness of the unexpected distractor (i.e., reduced rates of inattentional blindness). Contrary to predictions, no mindfulness × depletion interaction emerged. Depletion however, increased perceptual encoding of the distractor. These results suggest that mindfulness may foster awareness of unexpected stimuli (i.e., reduce inattentional blindness).
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810015300222


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the above YouTube embedded at and more at/via http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mindfulness-attention-invisible-gorilla-study_5625138ee4b02f6a900d0d5e [with comments]; reference http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com , http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/gorilla_experiment.html , also http://www.livescience.com/6727-invisible-gorilla-test-shows-notice.html [with comments]


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