And Now for Something Completely Different: Inattentional Blindness during a Monty Python's Flying Circus Sketch | Zendy

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And Now for Something Completely Different: Inattentional Blindness during a Monty Python's Flying Circus Sketch

Author(s) -

Richard Wiseman,

Caroline Watt

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

i-perception

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.64

H-Index - 26

ISSN - 2041-6695

DOI - 10.1068/i0706sas

Subject(s) - inattentional blindness , sketch , illusion , python (programming language) , perception , blindness , change blindness , computer science , visual arts , psychology , aesthetics , cognitive psychology , art , optometry , programming language , medicine , algorithm , neuroscience

Perceptual science has frequently benefited from studying illusions created outside of academia. Here, we describe a striking, but little-known, example of inattentional blindness from the British comedy series "Monty Python's Flying Circus." Viewers fail to attend to several highly incongruous characters in the sketch, despite these characters being clearly visible onscreen. The sketch has the potential to be a valuable research and teaching resource, as well as providing a vivid illustration of how people often fail to see something completely different.

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