Perception Deceives When Distraction Prevails

Psychological experiments reveal that distraction can lead to significant alterations in a person's environment without their awareness, highlighting a phenomenon known as change blindness. This suggests that our minds may not be reliable prediction machines, as they can overlook substantial mismatches in familiar settings. However, change blindness also supports the theory of predictive processing, indicating that the brain not only generates predictions but also assesses its confidence in these predictions and the current sensory inputs, which influences perception.

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