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Study Shows Limits on Brain’s Ability to Perceive Multifeatured Objects
New research sheds light on how the brain encodes objects with multiple features, a fundamental task for the perceptual system. The study, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, suggests
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Why Even Radiologists Can Miss A Gorilla Hiding In Plain Sight
NPR: This story begins with a group of people who are expert at looking: the professional searchers known as radiologists. “If you watch radiologists do what they do, [you’re] absolutely convinced that they are like
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When Experts Go Blind
National Geographic: The picture above is an X-ray computed tomography (CT) scan of a human lung. Go ahead and take a few seconds to look at it carefully. How long did it take you to
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The (Really Scary) Invisible Gorilla
The Huffington Post: The Invisible Gorilla is part of the popular culture nowadays, thanks largely to a widely-read 2010 book of that title. In that book, cognitive psychologists Dan Simons and Christopher Chabris popularized a
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The (Really Scary) Invisible Gorilla
The Invisible Gorilla is part of the popular culture nowadays, thanks largely to a widely-read 2010 book of that title. In that book, authors and cognitive psychologists Dan Simons and Christopher Chabris popularized a phenomenon
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Treisman Receives National Medal of Science
APS William James Fellow and past APS Secretary Anne Treisman, professor of psychology at Princeton University, is one of 12 researchers who will receive the National Medal of Science at the White House in early