The Invisible Gorilla (featuring Daniel Simons)

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Uploaded by on Feb 18, 2011

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.

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  • 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.

  • 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!!

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