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Alumni72 wrote: That was an interesting video - especially because of its stated intent.

I missed the (you know what) completely because I was convinced that the answer to the number of passes was a trick - did they pass some before they began, or did they pass to the black team at some point. Same result though. That's what you were supposed to do. What it shows (spoiler alert) is that when we're focused on something, such as counting ball passes or finding items in a game, we can be completely oblivious to other things within our visual field. It's amazing how it happens.

That video was an example of inattention blindness (we're paying such close attention to one thing that we don't pay attention to other things even though their right in front of us). There is also a phenomena known as change blindness. You can youtube to see that.

What I find most fascinating is blind sightedness which is when a truly blind person is able to catch a ball that's thrown to them. That's because our brains process movement in a different place from stationary (non-movement) things. So it's possinble for the brain to process movement (one place in the brain) without actual sight (another place in the brain). And visa-versa... some people cannot see things that are moving, but can see stationary things. So many interesting things when exploring the brain.