%0 Generic
%A Bergmann, Katharina Verena
%C Heidelberg
%D 2016
%F heidok:20066
%K Change Blindness, individuelle Unterschiede.
%R 10.11588/heidok.00020066
%T Individual differences in change blindness
%U https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/20066/
%X 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.