Visual illusion- Attention Experiment

This was a visual attention experiment conducted by Becklen and Cervone(1983) to show that the human mind has its limits. There is only so much the brain can process at a particular time and it must be selective in what it chooses to filter. Watch this short clip very closely...

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  Film & Animation

[David Levin]

actually, the girl distracted me from counting

[allymfc0212]

Thumbs Up if you think they couldn't afford a moonwalking bear or even a colour video recorder.

[ancaanghelus]

I connt only 12 :)

[ancaanghelus]

Cil

[James Wisdom]

did you count 20 too? :)

[Ismael Halawa]

I saw her!!!!!! At my first attempt!!

[Sandy Gill]

Anyone else notice there was a little noise when the black shirt players passed, but not the white shirts?

[UWASTR8EDGEx]

First time, I didn't see the woman with the umbrella and then I saw and I was blown away

[SIMKOL98]

same here

[20899901]

How is this hard?

[Pragmatic Kaos]

The woman might have been missed had she not been the same color as the targets we were tracking.