When Experts Go Blind
Original story at Phenomena: Only Human • 4 mentions • 4 months ago
The picture above is an X-ray computed tomography (CT) scan of a human lung. Go ahead and take a few seconds to look at it carefully.The image takes a starring role in a fun study in press at Psychological Science. Trafton Drew and colleagues at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital showed that when people focus on searching these images for bright white cancer nodules, they never notice the gorilla. More shocking, radiologists — who are trained to read CT scans — usually miss it, too.“It’s a vivid example that looking at something and seeing it are different,” says Drew, a postdoctoral fellow in Jeremy Wolf’s lab. “You can put your eyes on something,
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04 Feb
NOVA @novapbs
"How long did it take you to spot the gorilla?" When Experts Go Blind. via @ngphenomena http://t.co/C4Siqs9X
01 Feb
David Dobbs @David_Dobbs
RT @TomLevenson: RT @edyong209: Great @virginiahughes post on invisible gorillas and cancer scans http://t.co/ZnUK5UUf
01 Feb
Ed Yong @edyong209
Great @virginiahughes post on invisible gorillas and cancer scans http://t.co/phwnWFi6

