title: No blindness for things that do not change.
abstract: It is well known that under normal circumstances, human observers are able to detect a visual change (a luminance transient) in the outside world very easily. This study demonstrated that observers are also easily able to detect a nonchanging element if it is located in a display containing multiple elements that do change. That is, a nonchanging element popped out from a display containing multiple changing elements (luminance transients). The efficient detection of the nonchanging element may be due to temporal grouping created by the dynamic character of the stimulus display.
authors.affiliation: Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. j.theeuwes@psy.vu.nl
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Theeuwes
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008027:Light; D017603:Signal Detection, Psychological; D014796:Visual Perception