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ArticleOpen mind : discoveries in cognitive science2025

Invisible Gorillas in the Mind: Internal Inattentional Blindness and the Prospect of Introspection Training.

Adam Morris

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Article in Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  3. Reducing Choice-Blindness? An Experimental Study Comparing Experienced Meditators to Non-Meditators.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2022
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Adam MorrisPsychology Department, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8810-8694

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Much of high-level cognition appears inaccessible to consciousness. Countless studies have revealed mental processes-like those underlying our choices, beliefs, judgments, intuitions, etc.-which people do not notice or report, and these findings have had a widespread influence on the theory and application of psychological science. However, the interpretation of these findings is uncertain. Making an analogy to perceptual consciousness research, I argue that much of the unconsciousness of high-level cognition is plausibly due to

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consciousnessinattentional blindnessinternal attentionintrospectionmental trainingmindfulnesspreconsciousself-awareness

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