The Invisible Gorilla Experiment Revisited: New Insights on Attention and Perception.
A study challenges the long-held belief that our ability to spot unexpected objects is compromised when focused on a separate task. The team showed that individuals are surprisingly good at noticing fast-moving objects entering their field of vision, even when concentrating elsewhere. The findings suggest the existence of a ‘sentinel’ system, which might have evolved to alert us to potential fast-moving threats.