Inattentional blindness - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Inattentional_blindnessCognitive capture or, cognitive tunneling, is an inattentional blindness phenomenon in which the observer is too focused on instrumentation, task at hand, internal thought, etc. and not on the present environment. For example, while driving, a driver focused on the speedometer and not on the road is suffering from cognitive capture. [a]