Do individual differences in cognitive ability or personality predict noticing in inattentional blindness tasks?

Abstract People often fail to notice unexpected objects or events when they focus attention on another task or different aspects of a scene. Recently, a number of studies have examined whether individual differences in cognitive abilities or personality can be used to predict who will notice and who will miss unexpected objects. Although such measures can predict performance on deliberate attention tasks where people actively attend to or search for objects, a recent series of meta-analyses (Sim