those of neuroscience, magicians wish to exploit cognitive weaknesses, whereas neuroscientists seek to understand the brain and the neuronal significance of cognitive functions. Several researchers have argued that neuroscientists and psychologists can learn from incorporating the real world experience and knowledge of magicians into their fields of research. The techniques developed over centuries of stage magic by magicians may also be utilized by neuroscience as powerful probes of human cognition. Police shootings When a police officer's version of events differs from video or forensic evidence, inattentional blindness has been used by defense lawyers as a possibility. The criticism of this defense is that this view could be used to defend nearly any police shooting. See also Attribute substitution Choice blindness Confirmation bias Human factors and ergonomics Somebody else's problem Visual perception References Informational notes Citations Further reading Mack, A. & Rock I.; 1998; Inattentional Blindness; MIT Press Chinese, Americans Truly See Differently, Study Says, cites: Why lifeguards sometimes can't see bodies at the bottom of a pool? Papers Change Blindness and Inattentional Blindness. List of papers compiled by David Chalmers (Editor) and David Bourget (Assistant Editor) Attention Cognitive inertia