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Summary: Gorillas In Our Midst Sustained Inattentional Blindness

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Sometimes we could be very sure about what we see, but actually we aren’t seeing everything we are surrounded of or the whole picture. For example, when someone is focusing his whole vision on something or a place and something could happen next to him, but he couldn’t notice it because his entire attention was focusing on something. During the past decade, lot of researchers have done some experiences and studies to know how people react to these experiments and understand how our vision works. These experiments were about asking people to focus on some subjects while they put some other things that are clearly visible for them, but the observers report that they haven’t seen any other things in the experiment. Over the past years, researches …show more content…

The experiment in which two groups of individuals, one group wearing black shirts and the other group wearing white shirts would throw basketballs to their respective group. So, black shirted players throw the basketballs to other black shirt players and the other team do the same thing. As tis was going on, the participants were asked to count how many times they pass the basketball between each other. After several passes, an individual dressed as a gorilla would enter and stand in the middle of the group and beat his chest and then go out as it was never there. Amazingly, over half the participants that were in the study watching the players dribble the basketball between each other did not notice the gorilla was there. The reason that this inattentional blindness is they had a failure to see the visible object or the gorilla when their attention was directed in a different place. Inattentional blindness could be different if the task in the experiment was harder or takes a lot of attention from the observer. Most of these studies have concluded that intentional blindness which is the individual’s failure to see things happening in front of him, for the reason that he was focusing and all his attention was on something else are dependable because there is no perception without

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