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Professor Daniel Simons has been researching the cognitive mechanisms of our experience of a stable and continuous visual world and on change blindness. These failures to notice what is often obvious to others suggests that we have a limited interpretation of our visual world.  This is especially important when dealing with eye-witness accounts of crimes, suspect identifications, and in officer involved shootings.  Research in Professor Simon's laboratory uses methods ranging from real-world and video-based approaches to computer-based psychophysical techniques, eye tracking, simulator studies, and training studies. Join us as Daniel Simons discusses the implications of human perception and memory and how we should be careful about the weight we place on eye-witness testimony.

Originally aired on Oct, 14 2021