Ian Phillips

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Philosopher of mind and psychology, studying perception, consciousness, imagination, time and memory. BDP in Philosophy, and Psych and Brain Sciences @ Johns Hopkins. Writing a biography of Gareth Evans. ianbphillips.com

Photo of The Varieties of Reference by Gareth Evans
Picture of Sugimoto's Arctic Ocean, which initially looks just like a black rectangle.
Cover of Tony Harrison's A Kumquat for John Keats
Book cover image showing a tree growing out of a white boat
Data from Exp. 3 in which above chance sensitivity to location was found even amongst highly confident non-noticing subjects.
Stimuli for Exps 4-5 in which a dynamic inattentional blindness was used and critical trial depiction for Exp 5. Data from Exp 5 showing above chance sensitivity to colour and shape amongst non-noticing participants.
Results from E1 showing above chance sensitivity to location amongst non-noticers in inattentional blindness.
Schematic depiction of trial sequence in E1.
Figure showing how to calculate criterion from hit rate and false alarm rate in signal detection theory, and graph showing results from E2, 4-5 in which a conservative criterion was found.
Figure showing critical present trials (in which am unexpected stimulus appeared) and absent trials (in which none appeared) in static (E1-3) and dynamic (E4-5) inattentional blindness.