title: Individual differences in change blindness
creator: Bergmann, Katharina Verena
subject: 100
subject: 100 Philosophy
subject: 150
subject: 150 Psychology
description: The present work shows the existence of systematic individual differences in change blindness. It can be concluded that the sensitivity for changes is a trait. That is, persons differ in their ability to detect changes, independent from the situation or the measurement method. Moreover, there are two explanations for individual differences in change blindness: a) capacity differences in visual selective attention that may be influenced by top-down activated attention helping to focus attention onto relevant stimuli b) differences in working memory capacity or in decision making. In accordance with this, age-related individual differences in the sensitivity for changes can be explained by attentional processes and by confidence in the own ratings. Together, the present work might form the basis for a more application-oriented research on individual differences in change blindness and its underlying processes.
date: 2016
type: Dissertation
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/20066/1/Dissertation%20Katharina%20Bergmann%20Endversion%20Ver%C3%B6ffentlichung.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00020066
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-200662
identifier:   Bergmann, Katharina Verena  (2016) Individual differences in change blindness.  [Dissertation]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/20066/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
rights: http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/help/license_urhg.html
language: eng