JOURNAL OF VISION
Call for Papers
Special Issue on Induced Failures of Visual Awareness
Research over the past half century has produced extensive evidence
that observers cannot report or retain all of the details of their
visual world from one moment to the next. During the past decade,
a new set of studies has illustrated just how pervasive these limits
are. For example, early evidence for the failure to detect changes
to simple dot patterns and arrays of letters generalizes to more
naturalistic displays such as photographs and motion pictures.
This failure to report changes (change blindness) can be induced
in both simple and naturalistic displays, provided that the change
signals that normally accompany the change are disrupted in some way
such as by eye movements, flashed blank screens, blinks, transients, masks,
etc.).
Other forms of induced failures of conscious perception have reinforced
the broad conclusion that given the right timing, we are often unaware
of what would otherwise be fully-visible stimuli. For example, observers
often fail to report a visible but unexpected stimulus provided that
attention is focused on some other object or event in the display
inattentional blindness). Similarly, stimuli are often undetected if
they are repeated (repetition blindness). Observers can also fail to
detect a stimulus in a rapid stream of stimuli provided they had to
perform an attention-demanding task shortly before the stimulus
appeared (the attention blink).
All of these findings suggest limitations on visual awareness, and
they have produced a renewed interest in exploring the limitations
on perception, attention, and representation. Are these limitations
due to failures of perception? Of memory? Of comparisons over time?
What is preserved with and without awareness?
This special issue explores recent work on induced failures of visual
awareness, and the mechanisms that underlie them. We particularly
welcome submission of papers that investigate the nature of the
information preserved and the information lost in the face of
failures of awareness. We encourage the submission of empirical
reports as well as papers adopting a computational approach.
Guest Editors:
Daniel J. Simons
Harvard University
dsimons@wjh.harvard.edu
Ronald A. Rensink
University of British Columbia
rensink@psych.ubc.ca
Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2002
Target publication date: August 1, 2002
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