Ep 259: How Could You Have Missed That?

Published: May 26, 2016, 6:28 p.m.

What is change blindness? How could you miss some of the most obvious things that change right in front of you? Millions of people watch a video of kids playing basketball and they miss the fact that a gorilla walks right through the scene. \xa0A gorilla? \xa0And people missed it? \xa0Yup. \xa0We often miss lots of things that happen right in front of us because our attention spans work in strange ways. \xa0And because what happened isn't what we expected to happen. Let's learn about change blindness.