Inattentional Blindness

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The article entitled “Gorillas in our midst: sustained inattentional blindness for dynamic events” discusses the theory of inattentional blindness. At its simplest level, inattentional blindness means that we do not always see what is in front of our eyes. Accordingly, experiments were set since the 1970’s to prove this hypothesis. Scientists agree on the fact that perception is the ability to consciously identify the things we see and the changes that occur around us, but according to the authors of the article, the theory that favors our ability to see every single thing is wrong, since we are only able to see or more precisely perceive the small amount of information processed by our brain from the input received through the sight, which

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