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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)

• Set index articles
• Cognitive psychology
• Physiology