http://mindhacks.com/2005/07/14/another-look-at-mindsight/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Mon, 20 May 2013 15:51:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2005/07/14/another-look-at-mindsight/#comment-8306 Sun, 17 Jul 2005 23:02:45 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2005/07/14/another-look-at-mindsight/#comment-8306 Normally I’d side with the skeptics, but on this i find myself agreeing with Rensick, and in particular with Simon (the commenter, not Simons the researcher). When I was writing the book I was often very tired and looking at chunks of text for proof-reading purposes. Quite often I would know there was an error in a particular few lines and then have to scan through them word by word to find it.
Like Simon, I wonder how this could be explained except by the original Mindsight explaination. But unlike mindsight in change-blindness, seeing something in text is quite a high-level cognitive/semantic kind of ‘seeing’, which makes it even more unusual (or “provocative” as Simons might say). What do people think?

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2005/07/14/another-look-at-mindsight/#comment-8305 Fri, 15 Jul 2005 01:28:47 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2005/07/14/another-look-at-mindsight/#comment-8305 Anecdotally, I know that personally, upon seeing a large multi-paragraph selection of text, I’ll often pick out a word or meaning, then look to find where it is. I’ll see something, but not know exactly where I saw it. This seems to be consistent with the original mindsight proposal; I wonder how else it could be explained.

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