Change Blindness

• Difficulty detecting changes in separated scenes even after careful inspection
• Once found viewers agree that it was trivial
• Not due to limited visual acuity but inappropriate attentional guidance
• Temporal separation (instead of spatial)
• sudden changes within a static scene are easily perceived (cf. preattentiveness of motion)
• Change blindness also in animations if temporal separation spans multiple scenes
• A scene that should be the same but differs between cuts is known as continuity error