Gorillas in Our Midst¶
Simons, D. J., & Chabris, C. F. (1999). Gorillas in Our Midst: Sustained Inattentional Blindness for Dynamic Events. Perception, 28(9), 1059-1074.
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Primes¶
- Attention
- The structural asymmetry between attended and unattended items — that what is not selected has effectively zero causal influence on downstream decisions — is the empirical core of Simons and Chabris's (1999) "gorilla in our midst" demonstrations of sustained inattentional blindness.
This sourceClassic demonstration that ~half of observers tracking a passing task miss a gorilla-suited person.
- The structural asymmetry between attended and unattended items — that what is not selected has effectively zero causal influence on downstream decisions — is the empirical core of Simons and Chabris's (1999) "gorilla in our midst" demonstrations of sustained inattentional blindness.
Mechanisms¶
- Dashboard Triage View
- This is the trap of inattentional blindness turned inside out: people trust the salient item and stop looking for the unmarked one, so a signal the board fails to rank simply vanishes.
This sourceShows that focused monitoring can make an unexpected, unattended event go unnoticed even when it is visibly present.
- This is the trap of inattentional blindness turned inside out: people trust the salient item and stop looking for the unmarked one, so a signal the board fails to rank simply vanishes.
- Spotlighting
- Its classic misuse is spotlighting so hard that the audience develops tunnel vision and misses critical context just outside the beam.
This sourceShows that sustained attention to a demanding visual task can make observers miss a salient unexpected event in the same scene.
- Its classic misuse is spotlighting so hard that the audience develops tunnel vision and misses critical context just outside the beam.
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