The Case of The Missing Gorilla
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Inattentional Blindness - I'm a Gorilla, Said Repeatedly, Inattentional Blindness
We've talked about inattentional deafness. When you can't see the gorilla, it's always a gorilla. The third one we want to talk about is called inatt attentional numbness. We were looking at people's detection of very brief tactile stimuli that were presented as a buzz to their hands. People were less good at detecting the short tactile stimulus when they were doing the more demanding visual task. So is that why people close their eyes when they're snogging? To pay more attention to sort of the tactile sensation that is shutting off their vision?
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