Thursday, May 27, 2010

Selective Attention

One thing that I've been covering with my students (and on this blog, for that matter) this semester is attention. What do we pay attention to? What do we ignore? How are our perceptions affected by the assumptions we make about the culture around us?

How good is your perception? Watch this video and find out - and make sure you keep an eye on the basketball!



Another interesting example of this phenomenon...



And now that you've seen these two videos, I'm sure that you can figure out how this card trick works...

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