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The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
This classic effect (which is even more striking when the words are printed in color) reflects the intervention of your executive control system. When the words and colors conflict, the central executive must inhibit word reading to remain focused on the task of naming the ink color.
Stanislas Dehaene • How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
The researchers dubbed this phenomenon inattentional blindness.
Zoe Chance • Influence Is Your Superpower: How to Get What You What Without Compromising Who You Are
I myself like to call it attentive inattention. The concept was pioneered by Ulric Neisser, the father of cognitive psychology. Neisser noticed how he could look out a window at twilight and either see the external world or focus on the reflection of the room in the glass. But he couldn’t actively pay attention to both. Twilight or reflection had t
... See moreMaria Konnikova • Mastermind
Using brain scanning and behavioural experiments, researchers at the Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neurosciences at Vanderbilt University have identified a unified attentional bottleneck in the human brain, which impacts both perception and action. Simply put, we’re bad at dividing our attention between different tasks.
Ness Labs • Cognitive bottlenecks: the inherent limits of the thinking mind
What this does illustrate is the fact that we tend to be consciously aware only of what we attend to.