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06 04 2008

Lying eyes: test yourself for change blindness

Posted by: Diane Levin in Cool or Fun Stuff on the Web, Mind and Cognition, Online Games, Tools & Tests

Change blindnessHow perceptive are you? How accurately do you see the world?

With a quiz created by Jeremy Wolfe, Ph.D., of Brigham and Women’s Hospital Visual Attention Lab and Harvard Medical School, test yourself for change blindness — the perplexing difficulty that all of us have in perceiving alterations in the things that are right in front of our eyes.

As philosopher Henri Bergson once said, “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

(Thanks to Stephanie West Allen for so kindly sending me the link to this story.)

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2 Responses to “Lying eyes: test yourself for change blindness”
  1. dominique.lopez-eychenie says:

    April 11th, 2008 at 12:26 pm

    Hi Diane,

    I’ts a very good test ! our philosopher Pascal said too that “les yeux sont le miroir de l’âme”/the eyes are the mirror of the seele. I translate your article here for my reader http://www.avocats.fr/space/dominique.lopez-eychenie/content/vos-yeux-vous-mentent–testez-vous-pour-modifier-votre-cecite–_C1DBFA17-ED8E-43C9-9941-A7B9EE2407CC

    then, they don’t have only one function to see in front of our eyes but to see inside the seele ! what do you think about ?!

    best
    dominique

  2. dominique.lopez-eychenie says:

    April 11th, 2008 at 12:28 pm

    sorry seele is german I mean soul in english.

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