Invisible Gorillas in the Mind: Internal Inattentional Blindness and the Prospect of Introspection Training.
Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science January 1, 2025 Adam Morris 3 citations
Much of high-level cognition—choices, beliefs, judgments, intuitions—appears inaccessible to consciousness, but this may be due to internal inattentional blindness: missing an otherwise consciously accessible internal event because attention is elsewhere. Rather than being structurally unconscious, many higher mental processes might be preconscious, becoming conscious if attended to. The article synthesizes indirect evidence for this claim, argues it is a foundational untested assumption in therapy and mindfulness practices, and suggests it could form the basis for a science of introspection training.