A majority of trained radiologists did not spot the gorilla in the upper right hand part of this CT image of a pair of lungs as they scanned for nodules.
TRAFTON DREW AND JEREMAY WOLFE/BRIGHAM AND WOMEN’S HOSPITAL
Anyone who’s taken an introductory psychology course in the last 20 years likely remembers the “invisible gorilla” video. The video shows a group of kids engaged in a ball-passing game while, mostly unnoticed, a man in a gorilla suit scurries through the scene. The video is a striking example of a phenomenon called inattentional blindness, whereby observers may miss unexpected, but salient, events while engaged in other tasks. Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) ...
