Source
The Invisible Gorilla
Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons
Dan Simons and Christopher Chabris's book on the everyday illusions of attention, memory, and confidence — including their own famous selective-attention experiment (participants asked to count basketball passes fail to notice a person in a gorilla suit walking through the scene). Source for Episode 206's material on brain-training's lack of far transfer (see Far Transfer Failure (Narrow Skill Training)) and the debunked "Mozart effect" (see Mozart Effect Debunking Case).
Episode 222 is built entirely around this book's founding research and its other "everyday illusions" chapters — the invisible gorilla study itself (see Simons Chabris Invisible Gorilla Basketball Study), its real-world stakes (hands-free driving, the USS Greeneville collision, Joshua Bell's subway performance), and the book's illusion-of-memory material (see Illusion of Memory (Confident Misremembering)).
Discussed in
- Episode 206 — 206-did-nintendo-brain-training-make-me-smarter
- Episode 222 — 222-can-you-see-the-invisible-gorilla (the book's founding study and illusion-of-memory chapters)