The Situation of Attention and the Gorilla in the Room

Dan Simons has a new version of some well known illusions that he and Christopher Chabris helped to make famous.  Enjoy:

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To check out Simons and Chabris’s new book, “The Invisible Gorilla, and Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us” click here.

For  a sample of related Situationist posts, see “Change Blindness,” “Neuroscience and Illusion,” “Brain Magic,” “Magic is in the Mind,” “The Situation of Illusion,” “‘The Grand Illusion’ — Believing We See the Situation,” “Neuroscience and Illusion,” “The Heat is On,” and “The Situation of Climate Change,”