Induced Failure of Visual Awareness...

Trying out some experimental work to assist in how the brain creates erroneous visual images, and recalls information, and also to receive feedback at my seminar presentation next Tuesday. I'm reading a paper by Daniel J. Simons (Psychology Department & Beckman Institute,University of Illinois, USA) and Ronald A. Rensink, (Departments of Psychology & Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada ) who state that '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.' (Induced Failures of Visual Awareness). They go on to explain that failures of visual awareness have been induced in a variety of ways. For example, subjects often fail to report a visible but unexpected image when attention is focused on some other object or event in the display. They call this 'inattentional blindness'. They ask the interesting question; are these limitations due to failures of perception? Of attention? Of memory? What is preserved with and without awareness? I'm hoping to investigate further and will find the composite interviews interesting with Greg in a few weeks. Meanwhile, I've attached a few stills from my current quick experimental material playing with visual awareness.