In a classic study in which participants were asked to count the number of times a basketball was passed between the team members wearing black, half the participants failed to notice the person wearing the gorilla suit who walked into the middle of the basketball game.

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This describes a famous experiment on selective attention by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris (1999), where participants focusing on counting passes often missed the unexpected event of a person in a gorilla suit walking through the scene.

In a Classic Study in Which Participants Were Asked to Count