“First, watch the video. Then come back and read the rest of this description. J.W. Suchow and G.A. Alvarez studied how motion affected awareness of color change in their research on change blindness. Try it yourself! Keep your eyes fixed on the small white mark in the center.”
“At first, the ring is stationary and it’s easy to tell that the dots are changing. A few seconds later, the ring begins to rotate and the dots suddenly appear to stop changing.
But play the movie again, this time looking directly at one of the dots and following it as the ring rotates. You will see that, in fact, the dots had been changing the whole time, even during the rotation—you just didn’t notice it. This failure to detect that moving objects are changing is silencing.
The findings were published in the journal Current Biology”
Via Neatorama (Thanks Christopher C)
A lovely mystery for a Wednesday Morn
I must be really fick, cos I don’t understand what the piece actually explains… I will have to look up ‘silencing’.
I can see the dots changing colour while I’m looking at the white dot in the middle. Although I did read the whole blog first, maybe it doesn’t work when you know the secret
Sorry, but I could see they were changing all the time
Fascinating stuff, I wonder if this may be different for those who are colour blind so as my husband falls into that group I will get him to look later. Maybe our brains prioritise that info which is more important for survival as colour is not as important than movement during speedy incidents?
Fascinating
I noticed the colors changing the first time. It wasn’t as obvious, but I noticed it.
i noticed it the whole way through…. that was quite possible awful!
Hmmm. Not convinced. There was colour change visible when looking at the White dot. Is this just not due to the relative paucity of blue cones outside of the fovea – therefore attenuating the peripheral blue colour change?
An interesting thing I noticed is that when looking at then white dot, the other dots appear to be changing colour quite rapidly, but if you watch again and look at the coloured dots it a slower morphing between colours that you at first think.
Interesting
I could see that the dots were changing colour all the time.
I think there maybe a flaw in the theory, or does it mean that I am colourblind ?