Table 2.
Reasons why it is challenging to determine whether failures to notice resulted from inattentional blindness
| Study | Not clear how many participants noticed | Measured noticing only indirectly | Unclear what criterion was used to assess noticing | Possible that the critical object was expected | Primary task required reporting of “unexpected” events | Included multiple unexpected events without separately reporting noticing rates for the first one |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al-Moteri et al. (2018) | X | X | X | |||
| Ann-Christin et al. (2018) | X | X | X | X | ||
| de Cassai et al. (2021) | X | X | ||||
| Dixon et al. (2013) | X | X | X | |||
| Dixon et al. (2014) | X | X | X | |||
| Drew et al. (2013) Study 1 | X | |||||
| Drew et al. (2013) Study 2 | X | |||||
| Greig et al. (2014) | X | X | X | |||
| Ho et al. (2017) | X | X | X | |||
| Hughes-Hallett et al. (2015) | X | X | X | |||
| Marcus et al. (2015) | X | |||||
| Pandit et al. (2022) | X | X | X | |||
| Park and Kim (2021) | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Williams et al. (2021) Study 1 | X | X | ||||
| Williams et al. (2022) | X | X | X | X | X |