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nobody's fool trailer
Our book, "Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do About It," will be published by Basic Books on July 11, 2023. Check out this great video trailer, and if you like what you see, preorder the book at bit.ly/3Wm7rCa. (Thanks to Keith Harrington for his work on this trailer.)
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Dan Simons presents The Monkey Business Illusion
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Daniel Simons's presentation of "The Monkey Business Illusion" at the Best Illusion of the Year contest in 2010. He gave the presentation while wearing a gorilla suit. (Updated version to remove copyrighted song that was audible in the theater.) For more information, see dansimons.com or invisiblegorilla.com.
Memory for chess positions (featuring grandmaster Patrick Wolff)
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Chess grandmaster Patrick Wolff performs a classic chess memory task (filmed by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris). We showed him a card depicting a chess position and he then reconstructed the position on a chess board from memory. He makes almost no mistakes for a typical chess position, but has poor memory for a position in which the pieces were randomly positioned. The video illustrates...
Gradual Change Test 1
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This example comes from a study by Simons, Franconeri, & Reimer (2000). Try to find what's changing in this video. Only one thing changes in the video, but most people don't spot it on the first try. It is an example of change blindness. You can learn more at www.theinvisiblegorilla.com or from www.dansimons.com
Intuitions about perception
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Dan Simons interviews people on the street and shows (with furry evidence) that many people have flawed intuitions about their minds.
Movie Perception Test - Conversation
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Get my new book (co-authored by Christopher Chabris), Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do About It available July 11, 2023. Learn more and order from Basic Books, Amazon, or your favorite local bookstore. For more information, go to www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/daniel-simons/nobodys-fool/9781541602236 A movie perception test by Daniel Levin & Daniel Simons. The video itsel...
The Monkey Business Illusion
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The Monkey Business Illusion by Daniel Simons (journal article: doi.org/10.1068/i0386). Get our new book, Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do About It available July 11, 2023. Learn more and order from Basic Books, Amazon, or your favorite local bookstore. For more information, go to www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/daniel-simons/nobodys-fool/9781541602236
Soup de ja vu
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A film by Michael Tamburro, created in 1997 when he was an undergraduate at Cornell University. The film depicts a conversation between two people who have met for dinner at a Japanese restaurant. Watch it closely. You never know what might happen. Daniel Simons served as an advisor on the project.
Movie Perception Test
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This video tests how people perceive movies. Watch the brief silent video, and then answer the questions about it. It was used in a 1997 study by Daniel Levin and Daniel Simons. Get my new book (co-authored by Christopher Chabris), Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do About It available July 11, 2023. Learn more and order from Basic Books, Amazon, or your favorite local booksto...
The "Door" Study
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Get my new book (co-authored with Christopher Chabris), Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do About It available July 11, 2023. Learn more and order from Basic Books, Amazon, or your favorite local bookstore. For more information, go to www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/daniel-simons/nobodys-fool/9781541602236 This video shows footage from a 1998 study by Daniel Simons and Daniel...
selective attention test
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The original, world-famous awareness test from Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris. Get our new book, Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do About It available July 11, 2023. Learn more and order from Basic Books, Amazon, or your favorite local bookstore. For more information, go to www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/daniel-simons/nobodys-fool/9781541602236
invisible gorilla around town
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Here's what happens when a person in a gorilla suit walks around town. Visit www.theinvisiblegorilla.com for more information.

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @hdnex5959
    @hdnex5959 6 місяців тому

    Gaslighting 101 😂

  • @K7EXO
    @K7EXO 7 місяців тому

    Why do they keep going back and forth between the park and the restaurant?

  • @jeweloandasan9056
    @jeweloandasan9056 Рік тому

    The conclusion of this chess memory study is related to one of Gestalt Principles on Perception which is specifically on "proximity". Humans tend to view or perceive something as a cluster or a group rather than individual details.

  • @bigbowlowrong4694
    @bigbowlowrong4694 Рік тому

    Cosmo Kramer: The Undergraduate Years

  • @torchiest
    @torchiest Рік тому

    He's not super eloquent, but I get the point he's trying to make at the end. Also, he proves the point even more strongly by being able to swap back and forth between two different boards, both of which he still remembers.

  • @suboshi8561
    @suboshi8561 Рік тому

    i found the gorilla you idiot

  • @samritchakraborty7433
    @samritchakraborty7433 Рік тому

    Somewhat shutter Island

  • @channelbnaunga
    @channelbnaunga Рік тому

    watching it on 1st Jan 2023...happy new year mind

  • @MuradBeybalaev
    @MuradBeybalaev Рік тому

    Hate to say I noticed most of the changes, except maybe the "SUSHI" text being replaced by "MENU" on that card, which is pretty inconsequential. But I wasn't gonna call it out, just thinking to myself: "wow, this is some awful editing and camerawork, those weirdly out of place photo-wallpapers are encroaching on the shot aggressively and they need to turn that 'nature sounds' ASMR back down in this restaurant" until suddenly the table vanished out of existence. 😄

  • @copernicusnewton2569
    @copernicusnewton2569 2 роки тому

    Besides the miscontinuity edits, I found the atmosphere to get ominous which was heightened by the fact the actress reminded me of the creepy Elizabeth Holmes.

  • @Djhg2000
    @Djhg2000 2 роки тому

    Nobody mentions the water changing into ice when she spills it!

  • @TheShattenjager
    @TheShattenjager 2 роки тому

    Noticed everything, but I just kept assuming it was George Lucas repeatedly making edits trying to make it his “original true vision” of the film.

  • @husainattar4241
    @husainattar4241 2 роки тому

    I noticed the cups changing but didn't notice the background until the end 😶

  • @SandraWantsCoke
    @SandraWantsCoke 3 роки тому

    Not bragging or anything but I remember positions of all 32 pieces of every chess game, before the 1st move is made. Ok, sometimes I could mess up the bishop and knight positions and where the King and Queen go relative to each other, but still pretty impressive huh?

  • @mamagooseishappy1271
    @mamagooseishappy1271 3 роки тому

    It is 2021 now

  • @dmommy8239
    @dmommy8239 3 роки тому

    Looked like the glasses of water kept changing to full, then half full, then empty in front off the lady, then full in front off the guy, and then empty when they went to drink from it, moreover, the back ground keep changing from a picnic back ground to a restaurant picture window background.

  • @tertandailin5582
    @tertandailin5582 3 роки тому

    Tertan buradaydı.

  • @doooovid
    @doooovid 3 роки тому

    Been reviewing this study - thanks for the video

  • @NerveEnd
    @NerveEnd 3 роки тому

    I love how gracefully yet deliberately he moves the pieces

    • @Dr_Kenneth_Noisewater
      @Dr_Kenneth_Noisewater 3 роки тому

      No kidding. Impressive. They all play blitz chess over the board so I imagine it’s muscle memory. The pieces are bottom weighted too so you can sling them around faster.

  • @JTST1234
    @JTST1234 3 роки тому

    Im a casual low rated player but I almost puked at the second position.

  • @Fblthp_compleated
    @Fblthp_compleated 4 роки тому

    it's interesting to me that in the second example he places the kings and pawns first, it seems these are the things he focuses on?

    • @achessplayer6288
      @achessplayer6288 3 роки тому

      It seems that regularly as a principle he looks at the king safety first when he evaluates the position. That's why I think he remembers it. At the previous example which was almost an endgame, the king was safer thus he looked first on the plan.

  • @gokhanj.yenigun7933
    @gokhanj.yenigun7933 4 роки тому

    Chess players remember patterns, that is the reason why he is struggling with random positions.

    • @faitopodcast
      @faitopodcast 3 роки тому

      Homo sapiens try to recognize patterns. Put a chimpanzee on a similar task, I bet they perform better.

    • @todesque
      @todesque 11 місяців тому

      Wolff remembered the patterns because the patterns contained meaning for him. That's the big take away from this video. So we're dealing with something quite profound actually, way beyond mere pattern recognition.

  • @logangordy9225
    @logangordy9225 4 роки тому

    This is great! Wonder what he was really doing... 🤔🤔

  • @Zyborggian
    @Zyborggian 4 роки тому

    Wait is he a murderer I don't get it

  • @trainerahmedzidan
    @trainerahmedzidan 4 роки тому

    Can I use this video in my UA-cam video creation for the same topic

  • @alltech5466
    @alltech5466 4 роки тому

    Winner of a video, been searching for "memorization tips and tricks" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you heard people talk about - Yiyevi Ponevi Approach - (should be on google have a look ) ? Ive heard some unbelievable things about it and my m8 got great success with it.

  • @noodleexpanding3407
    @noodleexpanding3407 5 років тому

    Terrible acting

    • @penwozhere
      @penwozhere 4 роки тому

      Did you watch all the way through? The acting’s not the point

  • @orangejuice7964
    @orangejuice7964 5 років тому

    I expected this. I knew at the beginning it would become a picnic because of the background

  • @MyIphoneGaming
    @MyIphoneGaming 5 років тому

    Watch selective attention test, the basket ball hits the girl in her head

  • @paro8215
    @paro8215 5 років тому

    So the lastest video doesn’t allow comments I will just say HES ALIVE?!

  • @salazam
    @salazam 5 років тому

    Disabling comments is for little bitches.

  • @alisongilchrist6180
    @alisongilchrist6180 6 років тому

    The forest scenery was just too dark and creepy. I noticed everything, but the dark ambiguity of the forest and strange dialogue was creeping me out too hard

  • @lw216316
    @lw216316 6 років тому

    Sometimes in a movie they will show a chess game underway (just a prop, not part of the movie) and often I will notice that the arrangement of the pieces is not at all like they might be in a "real" game. Its like someone (maybe someone who does not play chess) just set some pieces on the board. I think I see that because I know how to play chess (at an low to average ability) and not because I have a good memory.

  • @vicentelopezrodriguez7208
    @vicentelopezrodriguez7208 6 років тому

    frenadol for your father.

  • @enigma9306
    @enigma9306 7 років тому

    Try to remember a real sentance, versus try to remember a bunch of random words and letters.

  • @Ronbo710
    @Ronbo710 9 років тому

    Not bad considering his "strong suit" is Bridge :).

  • @fergoesdayton
    @fergoesdayton 9 років тому

    Intuition can be more important with chess in scenarios, where a sequence of moves have to be executed in some order, to achieve some result. A true chess master, would able to play the board not only through rigid analytic moves, but based on their 'gut', statistical likelihoods of what moves their opponents will make. In contrast to what Chabris and Simons have to say, it is obvious, that giants like Magnus Carlson, aren't thinking through each move step by step, but instead very heuristically/intuitively considering multiple outcomes, before making an analytic judgements. “It’s hard to explain. Sometimes a move just feels right.” - magnus carlsen Just to note intuition can mean at least a few different things...subconscious calculations, sense of statistical regularities in occurrence (temporal), sense of statistical regularities between structures (spatial), or just an unexplained feeling that something is the case.

  • @Jate0000
    @Jate0000 10 років тому

    In the first position, the Queen was in the same diagonal as the King. That was important. It is nevertheless very impressive what he can remember. One of the Chessmaster programs had a feature at the beginning, it was a puzzle but with the same spirit, very random position of the pieces, it was really confusing. Of course, it was on purpose. BTW, I know Patrick Wolf from a documentary, Kasparov vs US junior champions. Wolf was the only one who beat K!

  • @joanahkirk338
    @joanahkirk338 10 років тому

    I noticed half as they happened. Mostly the background I did not notice the props.

  • @LOLLYPOPPE
    @LOLLYPOPPE 10 років тому

    I don't see the point at all. It's like saying try to remember a real sentence like "I am from Norway", versus try to remember just random letters. Obviously harder to remember random stuff.

    • @tronalddump2267
      @tronalddump2267 6 років тому

      The point is, as mentioned in the description, to "illustrate(s) the powerful effect of expertise on pattern perception and memory", you grouch.

    • @PerfidiousPuffin
      @PerfidiousPuffin 6 років тому

      I don't think it is about memory, per se, more about perception. So, imagine you are looking at some data, perhaps some stats, or maybe just observing the world go by. Maybe you think you understand what is happening. You do not. You recognise certain patterns or things you expect to see, and anything you do not expect to see, no matter how big or important, it is hard to recognise it, you miss it, or overlook it.

    • @joeroganpodfantasy42
      @joeroganpodfantasy42 3 роки тому

      John you either a very good chess player that what he does seems normal or you dont know how chess is played and you think of course he knows he is a chess player thats what he does.

  • @Semyasei
    @Semyasei 10 років тому

    try that and you will get beat, because one thing your completely forgetting about that aspect of chess, yes the openings are memorize but to be a grandmaster means you have to be superb in opening,middle game, endgame and TACTICS TACTICS TACTICS, try acting random with a grandmaster and they will kill you with TACTICS TACTICS TACTICS... so the best thing for you to do is memorize the openings get the feel for them and understand the variations and play with them against ppl and grow intuition

  • @adflicto1
    @adflicto1 11 років тому

    lol

  • @dxdaero
    @dxdaero 11 років тому

    Chess masters can exhibit remarkable memory for location of chess pieces on a board. After just a single five-second exposure to a board from an actual game, international masters in one study remembered the locations of nearly all twenty-five pieces, whereas beginners could remember the locations of only about four pieces.

  • @LustfulEnvy
    @LustfulEnvy 11 років тому

    There's a big difference between application of meaningful information than just working off of running memory of organizing nonsensical information. The brain works much better with stimulus with significance than random. It helps for achieving more efficient nueroplasticity. This video illustrates this well.

  • @MaryamNademi
    @MaryamNademi 11 років тому

    This test was somehow what happens in dreams.

  • @joebob7318
    @joebob7318 11 років тому

    Were you watching M'aiq the Liar?

  • @ArmisVideo
    @ArmisVideo 11 років тому

    Playing Armis really gives you the super fast brain workout to keep you super sharp with your Chess game.

  • @faithfulwaffles
    @faithfulwaffles 11 років тому

    origanaly the guy had 2 glasses

  • @mwangikimani3970
    @mwangikimani3970 11 років тому

    Thats not the point... the point is that his memory of 250,000 odd game positions (the average for a GM) will recall patterns of a typical game, he doesn't have to remember all the pieces but he recognizes the pattern and triangulates (sort of).

  • @85bezzer
    @85bezzer 11 років тому

    cool. The amount if pieces in both exercises shoud have been the same though