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Daniel Levin
Department of Psychology
Kent State University
Kent Hall
Kent, OH 44242-0001
USA
Office phone: (330) 672-3785
Office fax: 330) 672-3786
Email: dlevin@kent.edu
Home page: http://www.personal.kent.edu/~dlevin/!homepag.htm
Change Detection Research Interests
My research in this area focuses on incidental and intentional change detection in natural scenes, both in attended and unattended objects. In addition, I am interested in people's beliefs about their change-detection capabilities. In a number of tasks we have demonstrated that people are relatively poor at detecting changes (e.g. they exhibit "change blindness") while they believe themselves to be highly effective change-detectors (so, they exhibit "change blindness blindness"). We are exploring a variety of factors that underlie these phenomena including scene classification, memory for features, beliefs in the contintuity of person perception, and biased reasoning about past events.
Other Research Interests
face categories, visual search, concepts, motion picture perception
Change Detection Publications
Simons, D. J., & Levin, D. T. (1997). Change blindness. Trends in Cognitive Science, 1, 261-267.
Levin, D. T., & Simons, D. J. (1997). Failure to detect changes to attended objects in motion pictures. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 4, 501-506.
Simons, D. J., & Levin, D. T. (1998). Failure to detect changes to people during a real-world interaction. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 5, 644-649.
Levin, D. T., Momen, N., Drivdahl, S. B., & Simons, D. J. (2000). Change blindness blindness: The metacognitive error of overestimating change-detection ability. Visual Cognition: Special Issue on Change Detection and Visual Memory, 7, 397-412.
Levin, D.T., & Simons, D.J. (in press). Perceiving stability in a changing world: Combining shots and integrating views in motion pictures and the real worl. Media Psychology
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