This talk will be of interest to many philosophers. Inquiries to Anina Rich ([email protected])
Extra Department seminar on *WED 7th AUG @ 12.30pm *in the* *3rd floor CogSci *seminar room, Australian Hearing Hub* (new building, just off Epping Road). Prof. Jeremy Wolfe (Visual Attention Lab, Harvard Medical School / Brigham & Women's Hospital) Visual Attention Lab website: http://search.bwh.harvard.edu/new/* Title "If I can see so much, why do I miss so much?" * Abstract: You can understand a scene within a fraction of a second. If you examine that for a few seconds, you will recognize it, even several days later. Nevertheless, we can easily show that you are ‘blind’ or at least remarkably amnesic about very basic aspects of what you have seen (For example; “What color was right there a moment ago?”). Moreover, people are typically blind to this blindness, overestimating what they can see or have seen. These blindnesses may be one root of errors in important tasks like airport security and cancer screening. This, in turn, may provide opportunities for technological interventions to help us see what needs to be seen. * * -- Professor John Sutton Deputy Head, Department of Cognitive Science Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia Phone: +61 (0)2 9850 4132 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.johnsutton.net/ http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/ http://mq.academia.edu/JohnSutton http://suchthatcast.com/sutton/
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