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Many people believe that simply by opening their eyes they see everything in their field of view. In fact, a line of psychological research has been taken as evidence of the existence of so-called preattentional perception. This book makes the claim that there is no such thing - that there is no conscious perception of the visual world without attention to it. The authors present a narrative chronicle of their research. Thus, the reader follows the trail that led to the final conclusions, learning why initial hypotheses and explanations were discarded or revised and how new questions arose along the way. The phenomenon of inattentional blindness has theoretical importance for cognitive psychologists studying perception, attention and consciousness, as well as for philosophers and neuroscientists interested in the problem of consciosness.

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The book is full of important and intriguing findings... will no doubt play a central role in the growing literature suggesting that at any moment our conscious perception of the world is really quite limited even though we have the illusion that it is rich and detailed. --Keith Humphrey, Journal of Consciousness Studies Likely to become a landmark... In contrast to earlier physiologically inspired models of visual attention, this book whets our appetite for a new, richer, and fuller understanding of perception and its relation to conscious and unconscious mental processing. --Ken Nakayama, Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Likely to become a landmark... In contrast to earlier physiologically inspired models of visual attention, this book whets our appetite for a new, richer, and fuller understanding of perception and its relation to conscious and unconscious mental processing. -- Ken Nakayama Trends in Cognitive Sciences The book is full of important and intriguing findings...will no doubt play a central role in the growing literature suggesting that at any moment our conscious perception of the world is really quite limited even though we have the illusion that it is rich and detailed. -- Keith Humphrey Journal of Consciousness Studies

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Irvin Rock, a noted investigator of perceptual phenomena for nearly three decades, is Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University.

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