Trends Cogn Sci. 1997 Oct;1(7):261-7. doi: 10.1016/S1364-6613(97)01080-2.
Although at any instant we experience a rich, detailed visual world, we do not use such visual details to form a stable representation across views. Over the past five years, researchers have focused increasingly on 'change blindness' (the inability to detect changes to an object or scene) as a means to examine the nature of our representations. Experiments using a diverse range of methods and displays have produced strikingly similar results: unless a change to a visual scene produces a localizable change or transient at a specific position on the retina, generally, people will not detect it. We review theory and research motivating work on change blindness and discuss recent evidence that people are blind to changes occurring in photographs, in motion pictures and even in real-world interactions. These findings suggest that relatively little visual information is preserved from one view to the next, and question a fundamental assumption that has underlain perception research for centuries: namely, that we need to store a detailed visual representation in the mind/brain from one view to the next.
尽管我们在任何时刻都能体验到一个丰富而详细的视觉世界，但我们并没有利用这些视觉细节在不同视角之间形成稳定的表现。在过去的五年中，研究人员越来越关注“变化盲视”（无法检测到物体或场景的变化），将其作为一种研究我们的表现形式的手段。使用各种不同的方法和显示器进行的实验产生了惊人相似的结果：除非视觉场景的变化在视网膜上的特定位置产生可定位的变化或瞬变，否则通常人们不会察觉到它。我们回顾了激发变化盲视研究的理论和研究，并讨论了最近的证据，这些证据表明人们无法察觉到照片、电影中甚至现实世界互动中的变化。这些发现表明，从一个视角到下一个视角，很少有视觉信息被保留下来，这对几个世纪以来一直是感知研究基础的一个基本假设提出了质疑：即我们需要在下一个视角下在头脑/大脑中存储一个详细的视觉表现。
