Posted by Sam Domenico on August 05, 1998 at 10:35:23:

In Reply to: Re: Experimentation vs. Adaption posted by Yogesh Malhotra on January 30, 1998 at 18:49:45:

Dr. Yogesh,

This thread is old enough that no one may be reading it, but

on your comment that

(a) under conditions of high expectancy, individuals try to fill in the gaps in the received information;

This is why magician's slight of hand works. The audience thinks it knows what is going on, so it doesn't watch.

I believe that it is also what enables people to function. My experiences with artifical intelligence (alternative logics) and computer vision convinced me that people actually pay attention to very little of what they see. If you consider your surroundings right now, you will find that you can picture the office behind you almost as clearly as the office in front of you. I am tempted to believe that you are actually filling in most of the visual field from memory and only paying real attention when your "attention getting mechanism" (motion, sound) attracts your attention.

Sam

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