Video Of The Week - Can You Spot The Gorilla?
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Nobel Prize winning psychologists, Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons had a theory - They believed that humans focus only on things they want to - sometimes missing the most obvious stuff going on around them.
To verify their intuition, in 1999 they created a short video dubbed 'Invisible Gorilla', in which six people, half dressed in white shirts and the other half in black, were filmed passing basketballs around. The viewers were asked to keep a silent count of the number of passes.
Somewhere in between, a chest-thumping Gorilla entered the fray and stayed in the film for a full nine seconds. However, when asked, most people were so focused on counting that they totally missed the Gorilla!
We have all of course gotten much more observant since than, or have we? Check out the sequel to the 1999 experiment and see if you can catch every change that occurs in this short video. Be sure to tell us how you did, by adding your comments below.
sources:behavioralhealthcentral.com
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- not coolabout 14 yearsi counted 17 passes so fchoo close!p.s. that was not cool
- mikeabout 14 yearsodd
- judyabout 14 yearssup
- Celestineabout 14 yearsOMG that video is sooo cool! I counted 14 passes.
- I love u!!over 14 yearsThat was so easy i didnt see the words first so i REALLY noticed the gorilla!!!
- destroythehumanraceover 14 yearsdid u guys know that the powers gunna go out at eight o clock
- sakuraover 14 yearsThat was nice ,I am japenese!
- ololover 14 yearsoh my god that was toe-tally cool
- mimiover 14 yearsThe is really dumb but cool
- OMG kesheyyyyover 14 yearsGod people think there so KEWL but there not they sed they saw everything but they didnt