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Table 2 Reasons why it is challenging to determine whether failures to notice resulted from inattentional blindness

From: Inattentional blindness in medicine

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