Change Blindness in Other Senses
In addition to change blindness induced by changes in visual images, change blindness also exists for the other senses:
- Change deafness - change blindness for auditory information.
- Olfactory - human is constantly in a state of change blindness due to the poor spatial and temporal resolutions with which scents are detected.
- Somatosensory - change blindness for tactile stimuli has been observed using the mudsplash paradigm for change blindness.
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