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Why Even Radiologists Can Miss A Gorilla Hiding In Plain Sight : Shots – Health News : NPR.
“In that groundbreaking study, research subjects are shown a video of two teams of kids — one team wears white; the other wears black — passing two basketballs back and forth between players as they dodge and weave around each other. Before it begins, viewers are told their responsibility is to do one thing and one thing only: count how many times the players wearing white pass the ball to each other.”
NPR Shots, Morning Edition on Your Health By
Alix Spiegel on February 11, 2013
A great explanation of this psychological attention lapse can be found here:
https://practicalpie.com/invisible-gorilla/
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