Change blindness is due to a failure of attention, or more precisely we cannot multitask our attention. If we attend to two things at once, neither task gets 100% of our attention.
In famous change blindness experiments you are given a task such as counting basketball throws, this diverts attention away with taking in all that is happening - often leading to very strange and comical results.
Although with eyewitness testimony this comic nature is completely lost, since innocent bystanders can be accused.
Change blindness is due to a failure of attention, or more precisely we cannot multitask our attention. If we attend to two things at once, neither task gets 100% of our attention.
In famous change blindness experiments you are given a task such as counting basketball throws, this diverts attention away with taking in all that is happening - often leading to very strange and comical results.
Although with eyewitness testimony this comic nature is completely lost, since innocent bystanders can be accused.