Mental models/Change Blindness
Perception & Visual Processing

Change Blindness

The failure to detect changes in a visual scene when the change occurs during a brief interruption, eye movement, or distraction.

In plain language

People frequently miss changes to a visual scene, especially when attention is directed elsewhere. Animations and transitions exist partly to defeat this.

In the wild

Implementations of this model aren’t wired to this view yet — they live in the implementations table.

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