Follow the bouncing ball

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[posted by jasra...]

Go to the following link, and try to keep count of how many times the basketball is passed between the white-shirted players. Link.


Did you notice the gorilla? If not, go watch it again.

Isn't inattentional blindness (third blue bar) fun?

Oh, I love Scientific American Mind. Now if only some of the other really fascinating articles from this month were available for free.

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PS: it's fun to hack the brain that way; but it also causes major vehicle accidents (think about the ball-passers as cars, and the gorilla as a motorcycle, pedestrian, ...or, in some famous cases, a FREIGHT TRAIN).