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attention
You are blind to obvious changes in your environment.
Inattentional blindness occurs when you fail to perceive an unexpected stimulus due to focused attention on another task.
In a famous experiment, researchers found that nearly half of the participants focused on a basketball game failed to notice a person in a gorilla suit walking across the screen. Your brain is not a camera recording everything; it is a filter prioritizing specific inputs. You do not see what you are not looking for.
Your focus is also a limitation.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Simons and Chabris, 1999, Perception
- What the check found
- The definition and the attribution to the Simons and Chabris study are accurate, but the specific statistic is not verified by the provided reference material.
- Confidence
- Contested
Related
One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.