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Five or six years ago, I attended a lecture on the science of attention. A philosopher who conducts research in the medical scho
Five or six years ago, I attended a lecture on the science of attention. A philosopher who conducts research in the medical scho
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2013-10-03
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问题
Five or six years ago, I attended a lecture on the science of attention. A philosopher who conducts research in the medical school was talking about attention blindness, the basic feature of the human brain that, when we concentrate intensely on one task, causes us to miss just about everything else. Because we can’t see what we can’t see, our lecturer was determined to
catch us in the act
. He had us watch a video of six people tossing basketballs back and forth, three in white shirts and three in black, and our task was to keep track only of the tosses among the people in white. The tape rolled, and everyone began counting.
Everyone except me. I’m dyslexic(有阅读障碍的), and the moment I saw that grainy tape with the confusing basketball tossers, I knew I wouldn’t be able to keep track of their movements, so I let my mind wander. My curiosity was aroused, though, when about 30 seconds into the tape, a gorilla(大猩猩)came in among the players. She(we later learned a female student was in the gorilla suit)stared at the camera, thumped her chest, and then strode away while they continued passing the balls.
When the tape stopped, the philosopher asked how many people had counted at least a dozen basketball tosses. Hands went up all over. He then asked who had counted 13, 14, and congratulated those who’d scored the perfect 15. Then he asked, "And who saw the gorilla?"
I raised my hand and was surprised to discover I was the only person at my table and one of only three or four in the large room to do so. He’d set us up, trapping us in our own attention blindness. Yes, there had been a trick, but he wasn’t the one who had played it on us. By concentrating so hard on counting, we had managed to miss the gorilla in the midst.
"Attention blindness" refers to______
选项
A、the fact that one can’t see what one can’t see
B、seeing one thing while missing all else
C、keeping track of just about everything
D、the condition of being blind to details
答案
B
解析
细节题。通过“attention blindness”回到原文定位,第一段第二句有相应解释:这是人类大脑的一种基本特征,意思是当我们集中在某一个任务时,会使得我们错过除此之外的其他事情。故B选项与其对应,为正确答案。
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