When they taught together at Harvard in the late 1990s, psychologist Daniel Simons and his student Christopher Chabris got an idea for a new experiment testing how the brain processes visual ...

When asked if they had seen “The Invisible Gorilla” video, a majority of hands shot up at last night’s visual perception lecture given by Daniel Simons, current head of the Visual Cognition Laboratory ...

Experts at Johns Hopkins shed new light on inattentional blindness, the tendency among us to miss noticing something obvious ...

Sometimes paying close attention can cause us to overlook the seemingly obvious. Then again, if we couldn’t focus our minds on a single task, we’d never get ...