Eat your heart out, Houdini. Average schmoes can make a gorilla-suited dude pounding his chest go poof, thanks in part to a common difficulty with focusing on distractions.
WHAT APE? A new study used video from the original 1999 “invisible gorilla” experiment, which showed people passing a basketball in a circle (a still from the video shown above, although the basketball isn’t visible in this view).
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