Is there a name for reading things how you meant to write them?

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I'm sure many of us have this experience: When I'm proofreading my own writing I will pass over it multiple times, but miss mistakes since I read what I intended to write (what's "in my head") and not what is actually on the page.

Is there a name for this? I tried searching google, but had no luck.

Arnon Weinberg · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-21T03:50:45.087

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Unofficially, it has been called "illusion of expectation" by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, the guys famous for the Invisible Gorilla experiment.

Technically it falls under inattentional blindness (or perceptual blindness):

... the event in which an individual fails to recognize an unexpected stimulus that is in plain sight.

edited Oct 21 '16 at 03:50

answered Nov 27 '14 at 21:33

Arnon Weinberg

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N.B,: the terminology in the paper found by AliceD is "word skipping". – the gods from engineering Nov 10 '17 at 19:06
@Fizz You mean in his answer to this related question in relation to skipping 'this'? – Steven Jeuris Nov 10 '17 at 19:47

Is there a name for reading things how you meant to write them?

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