Beck, M. R., Angelone, B. L., & Levin, D. T. (2004). Knowledge About the Probability of Change Affects Change Detection Performance.
The visual system continually selects some information for processing while bypassing the processing of other information, and as a consequence, participants often fail to notice large changes to visual stimuli. In the present studies, the authors investigated whether knowledge about the probability of particular changes occurring over time increased the likelihood that changes that were likely to occur in the real world (probable changes) would ...