The disproportionately high number of motorcycle-related traffic accidents may be linked to the way the human brain processes—or fails to process—information, according to new research published in ...

Inattentional blindness describes the failure to perceive an otherwise salient and fully visible event when attention is engaged elsewhere, revealing fundamental limits on human visual awareness. This ...

A nurse pulls a vial of heparin from an automated dispensing cabinet (ADC). She reads the label, prepares the medication, and administers it intravenously to an infant. The infant receives heparin in ...

'Inattentional smell blindness', or inattentional anosmia, has been proven to exist in a study from the University of Sussex. Just as it has previously been found that people can miss visual cues when ...

The disproportionately high number of motorcycle-related traffic accidents may be linked to the way the human brain processes--or fails to process--information, according to new research published in ...

For two years, Tom Garvey lived in a “secret apartment” in Philadelphia’s Veterans Stadium. Almost no one noticed. Source: Wikipedia/PhillyPartTwo In our last post, we talked about the phenomenon of ...

'Inattentional smell blindness,' or inattentional anosmia, has been proven to exist. Just as it has previously been found that people can miss visual cues when they are busily engaged in a task, the ...