Psychological test

[dracodraconis]

Watch the video at the link provided and tell me how many times you think the team in the white shirts passed the ball to each other. The test is how many passes you percieve the first time you view the video. Those of you know of this test, please keep the answer to yourselves until we've had a chance for others to try it.

When you're ready, click on the link below

http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/grafs/demos/15.html

Comments

[samhaine.livejournal.com]

I don't think the test is really about the passes. ;P

[dracodraconis.livejournal.com]

Ah, you know the test.

There are quite a few more tests on the side, the most challenging being the cut-scene tests.

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

Fifteen.

You only clearly see 14 of the passes though.

And yes, I saw the gorilla.

And that means what now?

[travis-w.livejournal.com]

There were 15? I only counted 14, I'll have to go back and check. But yes I did see the gorilla too.

Do most people miss it?

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what the exercise is all about actually.

Yeah, one of the passes, the ball is passed to one of the guys with his back turned, but then when you see the ball again, the girl has it. I assume it was passed again.

[dracodraconis.livejournal.com]

In fact, 50% of the people who viewed this video without any instruction other than to track the passes are surprised that they missed the gorilla. It's supposed to be an example of cognitive blindness in which a person focused on one task that requires significant focus are unaware of peripheral (lower priority) information. There is an article on in in the latest Scientific American Mind.

[dracodraconis.livejournal.com]

That you weren't focused in the task to the exclusion of percieving peripheral information. In experiments, 50% of participants are unaware that a gorilla was in the video until it was pointed out after the fact.

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

That's wild...

thought is remains an indicator about how I operate on a daily basis

[dracodraconis.livejournal.com]

The test was from an article in the latest Scientific American Mind which covered the latest research in the neural processes involved in attention. The brain's ignoring the gorilla (in the case of the original tests run back in 1999) was considered to be similar to when we ignore noise in a room to focus on a conversation. We perceive it, but many people do not become aware of it because the mind has prioritized it as being too insignificant to bring to our attention.