In a study of visual selection,participants were shown a video of people throwing and catching a ball.Some of the people in the video were wearing white shirts and some were wearing black shirts.Participants were asked to attend only to the group of people wearing white shirts and count the number of times they threw the ball.In this study,participants

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This scenario is a classic example of a selective attention task, similar to the famous "invisible gorilla" experiment. Participants focus so intently on counting the passes among the white-shirted players that they often miss unexpected events (like a person in a gorilla suit walking through the scene). This demonstrates how focusing on one task can lead to inattentional blindness to other stimuli.

In a Study of Visual Selection,participants Were Shown a Video