While travelling in a place called Halmahera in Eastern Indonesia at Easter, I became one of very few visitors (less than 20 perhaps) ever to see a bird called the Invisible Rail (check it out, it's real!), and today we all kind of had the 'invisible gorilla' experience...
Check out more of these here http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/videos.html and post your comments - make it clear which part or parts you are talking about.
The two video shows people getting tested on their "change blindness"
ReplyDeleteChange blindness is when people do not realize or are "blind" to any changes that happen before their eyes often with something interrupting in between.
These changes can be anything from change of color of an object to change of person that the subject was talking to.
It feels almost impossible as an observer to be fooled by such a drastic change. However i was unable to realize the changes that happened in some of the videos until i was explained about it. This shows how unaware people including myself are of out surroundings.
The Monkey Business Illusion is a fascinating illusion that is created through the use of drawing others attention from the background variables. It makes everything seem normal since our body mechanism functions in a way that we focus on the main feature when perceiving everything just like how we expected to count the number of passes made by the players in white, oblivious of other changes that gradually occurs and seeps through our attentions' grasps.
ReplyDeleteThe illusions shown on this website were very interesting as it focused on "change blindness" or selective attention. Change blindness is when we focus on a specific topic, for example the passing of the balls in the invisible monkey test, and become oblivious to other changes or differences that happen. This was interesting because a normal viewer, who was not given any instructions would probably have noticed a lot of the changes in the movie perception test as they were looking at the big picture, while those who were given instructions, and focused only on the conversation would not notice these changes.
ReplyDeleteThese test shows us how our body perceives and ignores everything else, especially if they are minor, when given a target, similar to how we would ignore the "invisible" gorilla, as we associated it with the people in black clothing, thus ignoring it completely.
The videos on the website are very intriguing, they show how we function and commonly miss out minor details. In the video Monkey business it is shown how 50% of the people who had watched the video missed the gorilla. This shows that our body works in a way that makes us focus on a certain object while ignoring everything else/minor details. Similarly in the video "door study", the subject does not notice that the person who was asking for directions changed. This shows that change blindness can occur outside of the lab. In the "movie perception" video, there are 9 intentional editing mistakes, most people do not notice this and this demonstrates the illusion of memory, we think we perceive and remember more of our world than we actually do.
ReplyDeleteThe illusions and tests on the websites are all very interesting. The videos tell us to focus on a particular object like the ball without letting us know the details of the things we aren't focusing on. In the Movie Perception Test, 9 intentional editing mistakes are shown but most people don't notice any of the changes. This is known as "change blindness", a kind of illusion of memory as we sometimes think, perceive and remember more of our world than we actually do.
ReplyDeleteI find that the tests posted on this website are fascinating, because they bring to light just how limited our brains are in their capacity for processing sensory information. This results in a constant trade-off, where either the brain is focused on one bit of information at the expense of everything else, or attempting to process an entire scene, which results in the loss of small, potentially important details. This of course provides yet another loophole to deceive people with. My takeaway from this is that I should be less sure of myself and approach every day with this knowledge in mind so that I can notice these “everyday illusions” in my own life.
ReplyDeleteThe videos on the website showed the effects on sense perception through uses of “change blindness”. It occurs when an attention is gathered in one certain area, and something changes behind it. The task of “The Monkey Business Illusion” was to count how many times players wearing white pass the ball. Inevitably, I was lead to focus on the people front. Thus, although the colour of curtain colour changing was obvious it was unnoticeable until I was explained. Therefore, I then realised that observing by eyes does not give as much information as I thought, and it also illustrated people’s unawareness of changes in surroundings.
ReplyDeleteThis is a concrete example of sense perception. We only see what we want to see and we are often blind to what we do not pay attention to. People do not see the gorilla simply because we were told to focus most of our senses onto one thing.
ReplyDeleteThese videos are very interesting examples of how we fail to perceive certain events, however significant, if we happen to be concentrating on something else. For example, in the second video on the website, we usually do not notice the curtain changing colour or the player in black leaving the game, as we are concentrating on the players passing the white ball, and/or waiting for a gorilla to appear, as some people have seen such a test in the past.
ReplyDeleteThe videos show how people are tested on changing blindness. Change blindness is when we focus on another topic for example the passing of the ball in the monkey video in which most people would've missed the gorilla. People who were given the instructions to follow the ball would not have noticed the gorilla whereas if a normal person weren't given a set of instructions, they wouldve noticed a lot of changes
ReplyDeleteThe videos on the Invisible Gorilla website is very interesting and shows us how we often overlook certain details in every day life, just because we are distracted by something else. This is a very good example of sense perception.
ReplyDeleteI think the video effectively shows the impact selective memory has on our concentration. Personally, watching the video- I did not pick up fully on the "invisible gorilla", but did sight it. My brain was too preoccupied, with paying attention to those in the white tees, that it didn't have space to focus on both at once. I found it amazing to watch it back at the end, when this time my brain fully zoned into watching the gorilla, as I wondered: "in what other aspects of my life does this happen? Sensory perception is a vital key to understanding how the human mind works, and this was a great experiment showing us how we choose to use it.
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