Video: inattentional blindness in experts – the gorilla experiment
When we are looking for one thing, we can often miss things that are unexpected, even if they are really unusual. This video outlines new research that shows that this effect holds true even for expert radiologists while they are searching through familiar medical images. More than 80% of the radiologists missed a gorilla that was photoshopped in the chest CT scan. This shows that even experts are subject to limitations of our attentional systems. For more information, see http://search.bwh.harvard.edu/new/ind… or https://sites.google.com/site/trafton…