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Previous theories of inattentional blindness (IB; a phenomenon of observers failing to notice a salient but unexpected event when attention is already occupied) have suggested that an unexpected object reaches conscious awareness when: 1) the location of the unexpected object and attention align, and 2) the unexpected object undergoes sufficient processing. Moreover, it is expected that the same factors that influence the allocation of observers' attention in attention capture studies influence what reaches conscious awareness in IB studies. We explored the degree to which individual differences in susceptibility to attention capture and processing speed are important predictors of IB. One hundred forty-six participants (from Study 1 of Roque, Wright, & Boot, 2016) completed four classic attention (implicit) capture tasks designed to assess stimulus-driven and contingent capture. Following the completion of these …