Perceptual blindness I just find intriguing because I almost forgot about it until the discussion in class and how the brain just works in mysterious ways that we do no even notice at times because we are so involved in other stuff around us that we find more entertaining.
Perceptual blindness is how we do not see certain things that can even be right in front of our faces and we do not even pay attention to them because we have our selection attention on something else. Just like we saw in class when we saw the video of the kids playing basketball how we focused on how many shoots were being passed between the some people in the white shirts and some in the black shirts. Since that is what we were focusing on some of us did not notice the person in the gorilla suit.It is something that happens all the time and we just do not even see it because we only want to notice the things we want to notice and ignore the rest.
Scientists say that it is the brain playing tricks on his and are primed to see and certain things are there in certain circumstances.They also say it plays a good role in our emotions. They say also that it can also demand on traits such as if we are an extrovert or introvert and how that can play a part on how we see things good or bad. They say that it is the visual part of us because it is what our eyes are seeing and only want they want to see.
So it is all basically on the video we saw in class and our discussion. It it just some amazing I find it how our brain can easily just play simple tricks on us like that. And how we do not even really realize it half the time unless someone points it out to us.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/46348/title/What_do_you_see%3F
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I too find this interesting. It amazes me that some people don't see the gorilla in the video clip. From being a former competitive athlete I understand how it happens. I would have to be so focused on what I was doing that I'd block out everything else. I probably wouldn't have noticed a gorilla in the crowd then either!
ReplyDeleteYa I honestly did not see the gorilla at all. Then when he finally snapped the second time . It is so amazing lol how we really do want to see the things we want and tune out everything else.
ReplyDeleteI believe it's amazing as well, and the gorilla going unnoticed was absolutely funny! I actually noticed the gorilla but I credit that to my military career. My career required me to be very aware of my surroundings. I bet there are other careers such as police officers that get similar training. All of which makes me wonder just how much can go on without the common person knowing it, and how can we use this phenomenon to our advantage.
ReplyDeleteI find this topic interesting as well.I think that the experiment where the people switched places behind the board was another good example of how we really don't pay attention to things unless they are really obvious. The mind is a funny thing.
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