#2. Classic attention experiment (1‑minute video)

Let’s try this fun exper­i­ment, con­ceived by Simons and Chabris for their clas­sic study on sus­tained inat­ten­tion­al blindness.

–>You will watch a brief video clip, and your chal­lenge is to count how many times that the play­ers wear­ing white pass the basketball. 

 

 

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126 Comments

  1. Meenu Gakhar on October 12, 2020 at 8:11

    I count­ed the right num­ber i.e 15 and did­n’t notice the goril­la at all. It was an awe­some fun exer­cise and a great website!



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