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Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons
Personal blog · theinvisiblegorilla.com/blogsciencephilosophy
Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons writes The Invisible Gorilla, a personal blog at theinvisiblegorilla.com about science and philosophy. Since 2010, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “How experts recall chess positions”. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog by Chabris and Simons, the authors of The Invisible Gorilla, mainly to cite the gorilla attention experiment and research on expert memory and cognition. The comments do not evaluate the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons examines the everyday cognitive illusions that affect how we understand ourselves and our world.
Most-linked posts?
- /gorilla_experiment.html3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-21
- How experts recall chess positions3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-02-21
What Hacker News says?
1 Bicycle cyclist riders save your brain! 2 * allegedly stupidity and dumbing down of the USA 3 increases and the 'i wear a helment' is an example. 4 * At age 58.34 years, I still ride a bicycle. I have 5 survied various adventures, including learning to 6 ride as a child in New York City, NYC, USA. 7 *the WISDOM OF AGES to SAVE YOUR BRAIN 8 1.) fastest way to lose your career, and live in 9 the 'nursing home prison…
Comment linking /blog/2010/06/22/
on “Tell HN: Wear a Helmet”Submitted How experts recall chess positions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI used to drive under this bridge almost every day. It is remarkably well signed. But some people just can’t be reached. I’m reminded of the elective attention test. http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/gorilla_experiment.html
Comment linking /gorilla_experiment.html
on “11 Foot 8 – The Can-opener Bridge”Sounds computationally intensive. It reminds me of an experiment I read about some time ago, tangentially: http://theinvisiblegorilla.com/blog/2012/02/15/how-experts-r...
Comment linking /blog/2012/02/15/how-experts-recall-chess-positions/
on “Finding surprising moves in chess games”You are touching on the subject of attention, which is actually extremely important and has a whole field of research (see for example, the hillarious invisible monkey experiment: http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/gorilla_experiment.html ) There are a lot of things that we ignore or don't register consciously. It is possible to decode items in one's working memory in controlled situations (see for example: https://…
Comment linking /gorilla_experiment.html
on “A skeptic’s take on Neuralink and other consumer neurotech”According to The Invisible Gorilla (very interesting book btw) there have been other experiments done with gamers that supposedly found improved cognitive abilities resulting from intense FPS gameplay. However, the authors of the book did more digging and concluded that some of those experiments on gamers were never independently confirmed by other experimenters. Here's an article on the subject: http://theinvisible…
Comment linking /blog/2010/04/20/the-limits-of-cognitive-training/
on “Gamers make faster decisions than nongamers, just as accurate”As an example of that task specificity, for master level chess players, they are better than amateurs and novices at memorising real chess board layouts, but not significantly better at scrambled board layouts. http://theinvisiblegorilla.com/blog/2012/02/15/how-experts-r...
Comment linking /blog/2012/02/15/how-experts-recall-chess-positions/
on “Action video games improve brain function more than so-called ‘brain games’”This happens with everything, people are only aware of things they are focusing on, the surroundings are just "assumed" to be there. It's kinda like the invisible gorilla experiment: http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/gorilla_experiment.html
Comment linking /gorilla_experiment.html
on “Need for Cognition”