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The Invisible Gorilla is a book published in 2010, co-authored by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons.This title of this book refers to an earlier research project by Chabris and Simons revealing that people who are focused on one thing can easily overlook something else.
Hobbs of ABC Science likens the natives' likely experience to the inattentional blindness and selective attention demonstrated by the Invisible Gorilla Test produced by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons. The test takes the form of a video that includes several people passing a basketball back and forth while moving around the frame.
Christopher F. Chabris (/ ʃ ə ˈ b r iː /) is an American research psychologist, currently Senior Investigator (Professor) at Geisinger Health System, visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, France, and associate professor of Psychology and co-director of the Neuroscience Program at Union College in Schenectady, New York (on leave 2016–2017).
They utilized the same Invisible Gorilla video Simons and Chabris did (as mentioned above), but they additionally had participants complete a mathematics test to measure their capacity. From their results, they were able to find a high correlation between an individual's working memory capacity and their susceptibility to inattentional blindness.
‘The Crossing Videos’ by Huffington Post
n November 1954, 29-year-old Sammy Davis Jr. was driving to Hollywood when a car crash left his eye mangled beyond repair. Doubting his potential as a one-eyed entertainer, the burgeoning performer sought a solution at the same venerable institution where other misfortunate starlets had gone to fill their vacant sockets: Mager & Gougelman, a family-owned business in New York City that has ...
Timu, a female western lowland gorilla, was in acute kidney failure, officials said. World’s first and only ‘test tube gorilla’ dies, Nebraska zoo says. ‘She was beloved’
Daniel James Simons (born 1969) is an experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois.