Follow the bouncing ball

[wispfox]

[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.

Comments

[jasra]

That's the link we had... did it not work when you clicked on it? It was weird for me when we first went to the page. :p

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Evidently I was *demonstrating* inattentional blindness. :-/

What it was meant to say was, "there are a lot of other cool demos on that page, too". I'm really fond of the live-action interruption one (with the door).

The neat thing is I got to write a bunch of this stuff into a recent proposal; perhaps I'll be using it in more depth in a few months, if we get awarded that contract...

[jasra]

Ahhh. Yup, they had very neat demos there.

I hope you get awarded the contract. That would be fascinating work.