Right before our eyes


	Right before our eyes

dakotayii

4-26-2008 3:26 PM

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dakotayii says:

A study of change blindness - Even when people are on the lookout for changes—and insist that they will detect errors—they still fail to find them,Simons’s research suggests.

A very interesting site about Visual cognition.

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4-26-2008 5:04 PM

alanocu

very interesting!

4-29-2008 1:41 PM

faeriestarr

Very much like real life.

4-29-2008 4:47 PM

bignosemousie

This is really interesting.

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