an online test seems to suggest that I don’t suffer from this
A fun thing happend to me. I did the test at http://mindbluff.com/movblink.htm and I noticed the C but only subconciously, that is I knew that I had seen the C, but I didn’t remember actually seing it.
I consciously saw an R, and I consciously saw a C later in the sequence, but I couldn’t tell if they were actually consecutive, nor if there were other R’s and C’s around them. (I didn’t look at the video in slow motion to check.)
The first time, I noticed the ‘C’ only. The second time, I consciously noticed them both. (ETA: This isn’t the test that I took before.)
To what extent might your feeling that ‘I knew that I had seen the C’ be influenced by their having earlier told you that you would? (For that matter, what are the odds that what I ‘consciously noticed’ was an illusion?) An interesting test might be one where there is no ‘C’, asking people whether they saw it.
To what extent might your feeling that ‘I knew that I had seen the C’ be influenced by their having earlier told you that you would?
Without the test it’s impossible to know. I find it quite plausible that some part of my brain noticed the attention blink because it was primed to it and “filled in” the C.
A fun thing happend to me. I did the test at http://mindbluff.com/movblink.htm and I noticed the C but only subconciously, that is I knew that I had seen the C, but I didn’t remember actually seing it.
I consciously saw an R, and I consciously saw a C later in the sequence, but I couldn’t tell if they were actually consecutive, nor if there were other R’s and C’s around them. (I didn’t look at the video in slow motion to check.)
Just in case someone’s counting :)
The first time, I noticed the ‘C’ only. The second time, I consciously noticed them both. (ETA: This isn’t the test that I took before.)
To what extent might your feeling that ‘I knew that I had seen the C’ be influenced by their having earlier told you that you would? (For that matter, what are the odds that what I ‘consciously noticed’ was an illusion?) An interesting test might be one where there is no ‘C’, asking people whether they saw it.
Without the test it’s impossible to know. I find it quite plausible that some part of my brain noticed the attention blink because it was primed to it and “filled in” the C.