Here’s a link to some great demonstrations from Stuart Anstis at UCSD. You can also find audio from all of the lectures of his Psych 102 class on Sensation and Perception here. The link here is to the latest edition … Read More
Magic and Change Blindness
Here’s another example of change blindness featuring Magic Singh performing some close-up illusions, followed by Beau Lotto explaining why this type of blindness occurs. While the video refers to inattentional blindness, this is probably better referred to as change blindness, … Read More
The Wug Test and Overgeneralization
In this clip from Scientific American Frontiers, Steven Pinker explains The Wug Test and also how the overgeneralization of grammatical rules suggests that children acquire the rules of language, rather than simply learning by imitation. Looking to learn more … Read More
Bonobo Language Learning
Here’s a few videos from the Iowa Primate Learning Sanctuary showing attempts to teach language to Bonobo chimps. The first video is of Kanzi demonstrating his skills in using a lexigram. In the next video, we can see Kanzi following … Read More
Birth of a Language in Nicaragua
This clip from the documentary “Evolution” shows the development of a new sign language in Nicaragua in the 1980s. This supports an interactionist approach to language acquisition, suggesting that our innate capacity for language must be combined with a social … Read More
Test Your Awareness
Test your awareness with this clever Whodunnit! video demonstrating change blindness
The “Door” Study
This video from Daniel Simons shows original footage from Simons and Levin’s 1998 study demonstrating change blindness in the real world.
Daniel Simons on Change Blindness
Here’s a video showing a clever study by Simons and Chabris on change blindness and featuring an interview with Daniel Simons:
Gradual Change Blindness
You can find several demonstrations of gradual change blindness from J. Kevin O’Regan’s site http://nivea.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/
“Flicker” Change Blindness Demos
You can find some great demonstrations of “flicker” change blindness at http://www.gocognitive.net/demo/change-blindness The demo allows you to adjust the duration of time for each image as well as the duration of the mask screen in between. Longer pauses will make detecting … Read More