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Peer review: The sentence "A famous study that demonstrated inattentional blindness tested participants who were given a visual task while watching a video were tested on whether or not they noticed a gorilla or a woman with an umbrella walk across the screen [4]" is a little wordy and also awkward grammatically. Try splitting it up into 2 sentences or rewording it.

The additional info from your sources seems to really help explain what you are talking about.

Edit Ideas for "Inattentional Blindness" Article
For editing the "Inattentional Blindness" article, my thoughts were to expand the introduction, or "lead" section, by describing the concept more in detail and providing some examples right there at the beginning. I also plan to put in citations for research that has been done on the topic, since it is always good to have a plethora of studies that relate to a scientific concept in these kinds of articles. I also think that adding these citations is a really important edit for the article because there's a section about research studies (a vital part of the lead section) in the intro that has a "citation needed" edit. I probably won't be changing that part, but instead adding more relevant studies to the lead section to give the reader more of an idea what inattentional blindness is. What do y'all think? Hadoyle (talk) 04:11, 7 September 2016 (UTC)hadoyle

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Inattentional blindness, also known as perceptual blindness, is a psychological lack of attention that is not associated with any vision defects or deficits. It may be further defined as the event in which an individual fails to recognize an unexpected stimulus that is in plain sight. When it simply becomes impossible for one to attend to all the stimuli in a given situation, a temporary blindness effect can take place as a result; that is, individuals fail to see objects or stimuli that are unexpected and quite often salient.[citation needed] The term was coined by Arien Mack and Irvin Rock in 1992 and was used as the title of their book of the same name, published by MIT press in 1998,[1] in which they describe the discovery of the phenomenon and include a collection of procedures used in describing it.[2] A famous study that demonstrated inattentional blindness asked participants whether or not they noticed a gorilla walking through the scene of a visual task they had been given [4]. Research[citation needed] on inattentional blindness suggests that the phenomenon can occur in any individual, independent of cognitive deficits. However, a recent study shows that patients with ADHD had better attentional abilities when engaging in inattentional blindness tasks than control patients did [5], suggesting that some mental deficits may decrease the effects of this phenomenon. Recent studies have also looked at age differences and inattentional blindness scores, and results show that the effect increases as humans age [1]. Research also shows there is an evolutionary component to inattentional blindness, in that we are able to detect threatening unexpected stimuli more easily than nonthreatening ones [2].

Numerous experiments have demonstrated that inattentional blindness also has an effect on people’s perception.[3]


 * note: I couldn't figure out how to get my citation numbers to match up with the actual order they are in in the text that I edited, so the repeated citations numbers above are a consequence of this. (Some of my citation numbers overlap with ones that the previous editor used, but they do not refer to the same sources).