Archive for the ‘Hypothesis’ Category
Thinking with your hands
One of my favorite scenes from “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” is when the title characters move to Bolivia and apply to be armed guards at a (coal?) mine. The mine’s owner tells Sundance to stand and shoot a stone tossed about 10 yards away. Sundance attempts to do so, but repeatedly misses, and […]
The change blindness advantage
If there is one take-home lesson from perception research, it is that humans wildly distort and simplify sensory input when attending to the world around them. In the past few years, research into change blindness has shown some stunning failures of our ability to identify changes in our surroundings - the principle of perceptual constancy, […]