SciShow: What That Famous Gorilla Suit Study Didn’t See

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Content of the Lesson: Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. Inattentional blindness is a phenomenon where we can be so focused on a given task, we completely miss some pretty bizarre object cross our line of vision. Like a gorilla in the middle of a basketball game. But exactly why it happens is a puzzle scientists are still trying to figure out. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Alex Hackman, Ash, Bryan Cloer, charles george, Chris Mackey, Chris Peters, Christoph Schwanke, Christopher R Boucher, Dr. Melvin Sanicas, Harrison Mills, Jaap Westera, Jason A Saslow, Jeffrey Mckishen, Jeremy Mattern, Kevin Bealer, Matt Curls, Michelle Dove, Piya Shedden, Rizwan Kassim, Sam Lutfi ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3563049/ https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2214930120 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053810006000031?via%3Dihub https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242596919_Inattentional_Blindness_Reply_to_Commentaries https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/inattentional-blindness https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2019.00067/full https://nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroscience/m/s2/chapter15.html https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10694957/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11074267/ https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/asian-chinese-teenage-boy-warm-up-exercise-before-basket-stock-footage/1355599601?adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/funny-gorilla-realistic-fur-green-screen-animation-stock-footage/1341029159?adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/freckled-young-woman-walks-with-a-yellow-umbrella-in-the-stock-footage/1482184766?adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/sasquatch-in-tokyo-japan-stock-footage/1144431775?adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/dribbling-basketball-ball-on-red-court-stock-footage/1332331356?adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/illustration/basketball-players-athletes-with-ball-in-royalty-free-illustration/1456839874?phrase=basketball+player&adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/illustration/weather-forecast-rainy-season-a-young-female-royalty-free-illustration/1228566220?phrase=umbrella+woman&adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/extreme-close-up-human-eye-iris-stock-footage/895984050?adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/watching-an-educational-video-on-a-tablet-royalty-free-image/577325078?phrase=class+kids+watching&adppopup=true https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Human_visual_pathway.svg https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/illustration/wild-western-africa-gorilla-zoo-animal-royalty-free-illustration/1179846277?phrase=gorilla&adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/asian-young-adults-playing-basketball-on-outdoor-court-stock-footage/969546680?adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/mountain-gorilla-silverback-lies-on-back-surrounded-by-stock-footage/472514117?adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/male-eye-closeup-with-eyeglasses-stock-footage/1468711397?adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/tiger-on-a-walk-portrait-of-a-beautiful-tiger-big-cat-stock-footage/1401236982?adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/selective-focus-on-edge-of-a-metal-fork-about-to-be-royalty-free-image/1409609294?phrase=toddler+fork+socket&adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/strong-silverback-gorilla-stock-footage/1341311978?adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/gorillas-excersize-stock-footage/129624979?adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/man-using-mobile-phone-in-car-royalty-free-image/654244904?phrase=person+driving+texting&adppopup=true


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