Chapter 9 Gorillas in Our Midst

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Chapter 9 Gorillas in Our Midst

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• The human eye is amazing, but also limited.
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• We only see what we need to see, for
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• example, when we look for an empty seat on a
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• bus but dont see our friend.

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• Our eye is like a camera.
• Light comes in/ and hits the back of the eye,/
  making an unclear image./
• But our brain combines/ the images from each
  eye/ and produces/ a colorful, smooth movie of
  the world around us. /

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• When we watch an active basketball scene,/ our
  eyes send/ a huge amount of information/
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• to our brain. /
• However,/ our brain cannot follow /all the
  images, /and so it looks for one thing,/
• making us blind to other things./
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• For example,/ we filmed /a basketball
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• practice/ ? and then /this happened!/ Could
  anyone miss that?/
• A group watches the film, /but is told /to
  count the number of times/ the players in yellow/
  pass
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• the ball /to each other. /
• They can/ ignore the players in blue. /
• Will counting the passes/ make their brains miss
  the gorilla?/

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• Most of the group counted /the correct
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• number of passes,/ but only five of them/ saw
  something unusual!/
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• The majority didnt see the gorilla.
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• When they watch the same film again/ without
  worrying about the passes/ and the gorilla
  appears, /they cant believe/ their eyes./

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• They were so busy counting/ that their brains
  missed/ seeing the gorilla. /
• We dont see some things/because our brain
  processes/ only a limited amount of
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• information at one time./
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• Lets look inside/ the bus again./
• Did you see the gorilla the first time?