How Could I Miss That Defect? Inattentional Blindness
summary
Counting white shirts correctly yields 15 passes yet many miss a gorilla because attention filters out things that don’t match the attentional set. Lab work reports about 25% fail to notice unexpected stimuli even when bright or centered. Flight‑sim tests show adding a head‑up display delays detection of rare runway incursions and sometimes pilots land without noticing them. Practical findings are concrete: use multi‑monitors, pair testing, recorded replays and reduce task interruptions to catch unexpected defects.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:15Video Clip
- 3:10The Invisible Gorilla
- 4:19How big is the problem
- 5:26Why do we have perception
- 10:33Mac and Rock
- 14:37Dressing Can Clark
- 18:55Sexual Load
- 19:11Wakefulness
- 25:46Invisible Gorilla
- 29:28Visual Process
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