The Situation of Attention and the Gorilla in the Room
Posted by The Situationist Staff on August 2, 2010
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,”
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Christopher Chabris said
Thanks for mentioning the new video and our book!
-Chris
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