In sight, but out of mind?

6 May 2004


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Interesting article in the telegraph bout how we can look but not see. I suppose it is similar to the way we can listen but not hear?

“Working with Christopher Chabris at Harvard University, Simons came up with another demonstration that has now become a classic, based on a videotape of a handful of people playing basketball. They played the tape to subjects and asked them to count the passes made by one of the teams.

Around half failed to spot a woman dressed in a gorilla suit who walked slowly across the scene for nine seconds, even though this hairy interloper had passed between the players and stopped to face the camera and thump her chest

Current track: Don’t forget me by Red Hot Chilli Peppers

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