{"id":1199,"date":"2011-06-21T03:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/21\/selective-attention-more-than-just-missing-the-man-in-the-gorilla-suit\/"},"modified":"2011-06-21T03:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T03:05:00","slug":"selective-attention-more-than-just-missing-the-man-in-the-gorilla-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/21\/selective-attention-more-than-just-missing-the-man-in-the-gorilla-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Selective attention: More than just missing the man in the gorilla suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<\/p>\n<h4>Sent to you via Google Reader<\/h4>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/f7EA7piYS5g\/selective-attention.html\">Selective attention: More than just missing the man in the gorilla suit<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>In a study of selective attention,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/06\/20\/137086464\/why-seeing-the-unexpected-is-often-not-believing?ft=1&#038;f=1007\" target=\"_blank\"> 2\/3 of the subjects completely failed to notice a fight <\/a>in the park because they were too busy paying attention to how many times the jogger in front of them touched his hat.<small><em> (Via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/WSUDiscovery\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Sorenson<\/a>)<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=01ce4faaa07ae578a732e6f5f3929a77&#038;p=1\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=01ce4faaa07ae578a732e6f5f3929a77&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/segment-pixel.invitemedia.com\/pixel?code=TechCons&#038;partnerID=167&#038;key=segment\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?resize=0%2C0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/amch.questionmarket.com\/adsc\/d887846\/17\/909940\/adscout.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/f7EA7piYS5g\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\">\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sent to you via Google Reader Selective attention: More than just missing the man in the gorilla suit In a study of selective attention, 2\/3 of the subjects completely failed to notice a fight in the park because they were too busy paying attention to how many times the jogger in front of them touched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-jl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}