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Selective Attention

The (Really Scary) Invisible Gorilla

Wray Herbert | Posted 03.31.2013 | Science
Read More: Invisible Gorilla, Vision, Selective Attention, Medical Diagnosis, CT Scan, Radiology, Cancer, Perception, Inattentional Blindness, Science News
Wray Herbert

What the invisible gorilla study shows is that if we are paying very close attention to one thing, we often fail to notice other things in our field of vision -- even very obvious things. What if this perceptual quirk has serious, even life-threatening, implications?

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'Eavesdropping' Study Yields Huge Surprise About Human Awareness

The Huffington Post | Jacqueline Howard | Posted 06.21.2012 | Science
Read More: Invisible Gorilla, Concentration, Video, Attention, Selective Attention, Silent Gorilla, Science, Psychology, Science News, Slideexpand, Daniel Simons, Gorilla Study, Science News

Editor's Note: Don't read the text below until you watch the video above and take the "selective attention" test -- it's harder than you think! Wat...

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Paying Mind to Selective Attention

Judith Johnson | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Selective Attention, Focusing, How to Focus, Paying Attention, Attention, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News
Judith Johnson

With the increasing bombardment of stimuli we deal with each day, selective attention becomes more and more important to us to sort out what matters to us and what doesn't.

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The Invisible Gorilla: Are You Paying Attention to the Wrong Stuff?

Margaret Heffernan | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Invisible Gorilla, Dan Simons, Selective Attention, Healthy Living News
Margaret Heffernan

In one of psychology's most stupefying experiments, Dan Simons made a video at Harvard that set out to test just how much our mind can see when it's busy.

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