Missing the Gorilla in the Room: Blind Spots
Chapter 1

The illusions of sight and sound

Chapter 2

The tricks of memory and time

Chapter 3

The biases in how we judge others and ourselves

YOUR GOAL

Master of What your brain hides from you

Ch 1 · The illusions of sight and sound
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007skaty Human attention limits cause people to miss obvious events in plain sight.

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007skaty The McGurk Effect

You're watching 'ga' but hearing 'ba' play, And your brain changes it to 'da' anyway!

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We mistake a seamless experience for an accurate one.

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007skaty Visual cues change the sounds that human brains hear

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Missing the gorilla in the room

007skaty Researchers Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons tested human attention by asking viewers to count basketball passes while a

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How eyes trick your ears

007skaty Polished, mirror-like models of an eye and ear gleam under dramatic studio lights.

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Blink and Whisper
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007skaty Decode the quiet whispers to discover the inner truths you need to realize.

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Fun Fact

The blind spot: Your brain uses clues from the surrounding background to guess and paint over your eye's blind spot, meaning part of what you see is always a complete fabrication.

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Gossip

Would you trust your eyes in a courtroom testimony?

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Quiz

In the 1998 door experiment, what percentage of people missed that their conversation partner had swapped?

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007skaty Every human eye contains a natural blind spot.

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Gossip

Which trick of the mind is the most unsettling to experience?

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Why don't you see the world blur when you quickly move your eyes from side to side?

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007skaty Human brains fail to notice massive changes happening in plain sight

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Which auditory illusion creates the sensation of a sound that infinitely rises in pitch?

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In the 1999 Harvard attention experiment, what unexpected figure walked across the basketball court?

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What is the illusion where the second hand of a clock seems to freeze when you first look?

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What happens during the McGurk effect when visual and auditory speech cues conflict?

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Quiz

Who discovered the optical blind spot in the human eye in 1660?

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What effect causes stationary blurry images in your peripheral vision to fade away when you stare?

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