Conscious perception often fails when an object appears unexpectedly and our attention is focused elsewhere (inattentional blindness). While various factors have been identified as determinants of inattentional blindness, the influence of an unexpected object́s semantic value remains ambiguous. This is also true for the supposedly evolutionary meaning of faces; some studies found higher detection rates for faces while others did not or used control conditions that differed in physical aspects of the stimulus as well. In the proposed studies we aim to replicate and clarify the effect of the semantic value of faces on inattentional blindness in a controlled and systematic manner.

当一个物体出乎意料地出现并且我们的注意力集中在其他地方（无意失明）时，意识知觉往往会失败。虽然各种因素已被确定为无意失明的决定因素，但意外对象的语义价值的影响仍然不明确。对于面部所谓的进化意义来说也是如此。一些研究发现面部的检测率更高，而其他研究则没有或使用在刺激的物理方面也不同的控制条件。在拟议的研究中，我们旨在以受控和系统的方式复制和阐明面部语义价值对无意失明的影响。