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But Did You See the Gorilla? The Problem With Inattentional Blindness

Simons, Daniel
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/but-did-you-see-the-gorilla-the-problem-with-inattentional-blindness-17339778/

Publisher:  Smithsonian Magazine
Date Written:  01/09/2022
Year Published:  2012  
Resource Type:  Article

The most effective cloaking device is the human mind.

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For more than a decade, my colleagues and I have been studying a form of invisibility known as inattentional blindness. In our best-known demonstration, we showed people a video and asked them to count how many times three basketball players wearing white shirts passed a ball. After about 30 seconds, a woman in a gorilla suit sauntered into the scene, faced the camera, thumped her chest and walked away. Half the viewers missed her. In fact, some people looked right at the gorilla and did not see it.

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