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Repetition Blindness

Memory Biases and Effects

Repetition blindness is a phenomenon observed when items are shown one after another in rapid succession, in which people are often poor at noticing that something has appeared a second time. It is defined as the failure to recognize the second occurrence of a repeated item in such a rapid visual display.

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Core ClaimSourced to the subject's own account
Repetition blindness is the failure to recognize the second occurrence of a repeated item when it is shown twice within a rapid serial visual presentation stream. 1
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Type of PhenomenonSourced to the subject's own account
Perceptual Phenomenon 1
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Source Repetition Blindness (Wikipedia)
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1. Repetition Blindness (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia
  • Wikipedia lead section, third sentence
    Repetition blindness is the failure to recognize a second happening of a visual display.
  • lead section, phenomenon-kind classification
    Repetition blindness is the failure to recognize a second happening of a visual display.
  • In Branch: Cognitive Psychology, Lead sentence
    Repetition blindness (RB) is a phenomenon observed in rapid serial visual presentation.
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