Howard C. Hughes, Ph.D.
(Dartmouth)
Looking, Seeing, and Looking Without Seeing
There is an intimate relationship between the act of seeing and the act of moving our eyes. Indeed, seeing depends upon eye movements. Visual attention is also intimately related to movements of the eyes, although it is possible to decouple attention with the direction of gaze. I will explore aspects of the interrelationships between seeing, attention, and eye movements using demonstrations and empirical findings. These will lead to a surprising paradox we term 'attentive blank stares': failures to see obvious changes that are attentively fixated.
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