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@googlefactss · Post #40679 · 02/19/2026, 05:04 PM
In 1999, psychologists Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons showed people a video of people passing basketballs and asked them to count passes. A person in a gorilla suit walked through the scene, but about half the viewers didn’t notice it because they were focused on counting. This demonstrated a psychological effect called inattentional blindness — missing obvious things when attention is focused elsewhere. 🧠👀 [Read more] [See the video] @googlefactss #InvisibleGorilla#psychology#attention#cognition