When they taught together at Harvard in the late 1990s, psychologist Daniel Simons and his student Christopher Chabris got an idea for a new experiment testing how the brain processes visual ...
When asked if they had seen “The Invisible Gorilla” video, a majority of hands shot up at last night’s visual perception lecture given by Daniel Simons, current head of the Visual Cognition Laboratory ...
Eleven years ago, a gorilla demonstrated that we can miss incredibly obvious things right in front of us if our attention is focused elsewhere. This experiment became world-famous – but people still ...
Humans have possibly looked in the wrong direction when it comes to hunting for signs of non-terrestrial life. Researchers in Spain cited that a cosmic gorilla effect could blind the detection of ...