Drew, Võ, and Wolfe (2013) used expert radiologists as their test participants.The stimuli were CT scans taken to determine if patients had dangerous nodules on their lungs.What happened in the study?
A)More than 80% of the radiologists failed to detect the image of a gorilla in the CT scan.
B)Because of change blindness, many of the expert radiologists were unable to detect a change of CT scan while they were examining them.
C)The radiologists attended to relevant aspects of the stimuli only when their attention was selectively undivided.
D)When distracting elements were introduced, the radiologists focused on those instead of the relevant aspects of the CT scan.

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More than 80% of the radiologists did not notice a gorilla image superimposed on the CT scans, illustrating how focused attention can cause significant details to be missed, a phenomenon related to inattentional blindness.

Drew, Võ, and Wolfe (2013) Used Expert Radiologists as Their