List of blindness effects

From HandWiki

There are several psychological and physiological effects that cause blindness to some visual stimulus.

  • Banner blindness or ad blindness, consciously or subconsciously ignoring banner-like advertisements at web pages.
  • Change blindness, the inability to detect some changes in busy scenes.
  • Choice blindness, a result in a perception experiment by Petter Johansson and colleagues.
  • Color blindness, a color vision deficiency.
  • Cortical blindness, a loss of vision caused by damage to the visual area in the brain.
  • Flash blindness, a visual impairment following exposure to a light flash.
  • Hysterical blindness (nowadays known as conversion disorder), the appearance of neurological symptoms without a neurological cause.
  • Inattentional blindness or perceptual blindness, failing to notice some stimulus that is in plain sight.
  • Motion blindness, a neuropsychological disorder causing an inability to perceive motion.

See also

  • Blindness (disambiguation)