Is there a mismatch negativity during change blindness?

The mismatch negativity is an event-related potential that represents a preattentive change detection process. The aim of this study was to determine whether the mismatch negativity was present during 'change blindness', a striking phenomenon in which surprisingly large changes in a complex scene are not seen when they occur during a blink or an eye movement. In this study, large orientation changes elicited a candidate mismatch negativity between 180 and 320 ms that appeared to be independent of participants' performance (uncued 76% correct, miscued 59% correct with chance performance at 50%).

Event-related potentials (ERPs) to schematic faces in adults and children.

Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from 4-year-old 8-10-year-old children and adults to a schematic face, inverted face and jumbled face. The subjects were instructed to fixate the stimuli and no other response was required. The schematic face and inverted face were shown with a frequency of 20% each and the remaining presentations (60%) were of the jumbled face.