Can people really sometimes miss when a gorilla walks right in front of their eyes? You bet your sweet bananas they can! This video provides a tongue-in-cheek exploration of inattentional blindness with Professor Dan Simons and the often ignored Invisible Gorilla himself. Simons is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology and a faculty member in the Human Perception and Performance group at the Beckman Institute.
I'd like to see another version of the test, where the participants wear say white and green shirts, and then put the gorilla in - as I think much of the reason that people don't notice it, is because it blends in with the people wearing black shirts; you see people in white and some black shadows moving around.
triggerhappygunnerm 11 months ago
I saw this experiment recreated on TV, and I missed the "gorilla" in that experiment, but I did NOT get the number of passes wrong!!
BJEAKE 1 year ago