@article{ref1,
title="You do not talk about Fight Club if you do not notice Fight Club: Inattentional blindness for a simulated real-world assault",
journal="i-Perception",
year="2011",
author="Chabris, Christopher F. and Weinberger, Adam and Fontaine, Matthew and Simons, Daniel J.",
volume="2",
number="2",
pages="150-153",
abstract="Inattentional blindness-the failure to see visible and otherwise salient events when one is paying attention to something else-has been proposed as an explanation for various real-world events. In one such event, a Boston police officer chasing a suspect ran past a brutal assault and was prosecuted for perjury when he claimed not to have seen it. However, there have been no experimental studies of inattentional blindness in real-world conditions. We simulated the Boston incident by having subjects run after a confederate along a route near which three other confederates staged a fight. At night only 35% of subjects noticed the fight; during the day 56% noticed. We manipulated the attentional load on the subjects and found that increasing the load significantly decreased noticing. These results provide evidence that inattentional blindness can occur during real-world situations, including the Boston case.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2041-6695",
doi="10.1068/i0436",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/i0436"
}