The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us

by Christopher Chabris

object, so it goes by the scientific name “inattentional blindness.”

Conley was worried about Smut Brown scaling the fence and escaping, and he pursued his suspect with a single-minded focus that he described as “tunnel vision.” Conley’s prosecutor ridiculed this idea, saying that what prevented Conley from seeing the beating was not tunnel vision but video editing—“a deliberate cropping of Cox out of the picture.”

seen before that moment. After accidents, drivers regularly claim, “I was looking right there and they came out of nowhere … I never saw them.”