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Showing 1 to 20 of 392 for “"Blindness"”.
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Predicting noticing: individual differences in change blindness and inattentional blindness
Change blindness and inattentional blindness share commonalities in their phenomenology as failures to notice and in factors that prior research suggests are critical to determining the detectability of visual anomalies. However, few studies explore whether individual performance across these …
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Phonological repetition blindness
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1992.
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Theology of Blindness in the Hebrew Scriptures
… of passages in the Hebrew Scriptures discuss blindness. Scholars have studied them individually, but not with a view to developing a theology of blindness. The purpose of the present dissertation, then, is to analyze theological implications of blindness in the Hebrew Scriptures …
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Similarity and feature dimensions in inattentional blindness
This Thesis was approved for publication on 2017-10-20 at 16:31.
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Spatial Reading System for Individuals with Blindness
… reading system that enables Individuals with Blindness<br />or Severe Visual Impairment (IBSVI) to have equivalent spatial reading experience to their<br />sighted counterparts, in terms of being able to engage in different reading strategies e.g.<br />scanning, skimming, and active reading. …
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Magnitude and determinants of the ratio between prevalences of low vision and blindness in rapid assessment of avoidable blindness surveys
… prevalence of low vision and prevalence of blindness using Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness (RAAB) surveys across World Bank regions. The surveys included in the study were available in the RAAB repository and obtained through permission from the primary investigators. A univariate …
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Processes influencing visual awareness during motion-induced blindness
<p>Visual illusions, such as motion-induced blindness, arise when the visual system, balancing speed and efficiency, summarizes the information it receives to form a percept. Motion-induced blindness (MIB) is characterized as the disappearance of a salient target when surrounded by a moving mask. …
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Self-deception and moral blindness in the modern corporation
… that self-deception can help to facilitate moral blindness in the context of the modem corporation. It contends that individuals are capable of suppressing knowledge or beliefs regarding truths that they prefer not to face, and that this self-deceptive process is aided by systemic and cultural …
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Choice Blindness: The Incongruence of Intention, Action and Introspection
… my collaborators and I have named choice blindness. The thesis consists of four co-authored papers, dealing with different aspects of the phenomenon. Paper one presents an initial set of studies using a computerised choice procedure, and discusses the relation of choice blindness to the …
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Nibbling at clouds: the visual artist encounters adventitious blindness
… the visual artist encounters adventitious blindness, examines how visual artists who have come to lose all or most of their eyesight in later life continue to engage with their art practice. This relates directly to my own conditio, where vision has deteriorated in recent years to a point …
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Bias blindness: How police see and don't see hate crimes
This study examines how police see and don't see hate crimes. Prior research has drawn mainly on the ambiguity of hate crime laws and definitions, as well as the struggles endured by law enforcement when investigating these cases. This thesis delves deeper into the issue by analyzing the forces …
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Blind but Seeing: Post-clinical Medicine in Jose Saramago's Blindness
<p>This project examines José Saramago’s <em>Blindness</em> (1996) in the context of two other narratives focused on plagues and epidemics – Daniel Defoe’s <em>A Journal of the Plague Year</em> (1722) and Albert Camus’ <em>The Plague </em>(1947) – each written at different points in time during the …
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Processing deficits in RSVP : the attentional blink and repetition blindness
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1994.
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The effects of blindness on tactile and auditory perception in rats
… greater awareness of people’s nature after this blindness. It is still a prevalent myth in contemporary American culture, to the extent that it appears in “Little Orphan Annie.” Experimental attempts at verification of this point began several years ago, but it remains a controversial issue. …
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Change blindness and the relationship of college students with different majors
Change blindness is defined as a psychological phenomenon that occurs when a change in a visual stimulus goes unnoticed by the observer (Boundless, 2013). Change blindness can be any change in one's visual field and occurs due to the lack of attention or obstruction in one's visual field. A variety …
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Predicting Inattentional Blindness with Pupillary Response in a Simulated Flight Task
<p>Inattentional blindness (IB) is the failure of observers to notice the presence of a clearly viewable but unexpected visual event when attentional resources are diverted elsewhere. Knowing when an operator is unable to respond or detect an unexpected event may help improve safety during task …
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Phenomenology and Blindness: Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and an Alternative Metaphysical Vision
… to it: As long as vision (or its opposite, blindness) remains a core part of a philosophical world-view, it remains ocularcentric at its core.</p> <p>I find in the works of Merleau-Ponty tantalizing philosophical arguments suggesting a potential alternative. In his emphasis on all five …
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Philosophical blindness and the black subject: the deconstruction of a discipline
This dissertation is focused on the creation and analysis of the content of the Black American Philosophical and Education Project. Of particular interest to me is the historical pursuit and experience of the study of Philosophy in the American higher education system by Black American students. …
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