Demonstrations, videos from our research, appearances in the media, etc. Dan's YouTube Channel includes most of these videos as well as favorites from around the web that are related to or mentioned in our book.



The original selective attention task
This video is the one that started our collaboration and inspired the book. You can read more about it here.





Dan's "Monkey Business Illusion"
This was Dan's submission to the 2010 Best Illusion of the Year contest.





The original "door" study
This video shows a subject in a person-change study conducted by Dan and his colleague Daniel Levin.





A movie perception test - coversation
This video illustrates how movie perception works and is from a study by Dan and his colleague Daniel Levin.





A movie perception test
This video illustrates how movie perception works and was from a study by Dan and his colleague Daniel Levin.





Dan's presentation of the Monkey Business Illusion
This 5 minute video shows Dan's presentation at the Illusion of the Year contest. He gave his presentation while wearing a gorilla costume. It includes the Monkey Business Illusion plus some other hyjinx.





Invisible Gorilla Around Town
Watch what happens when Dan dons a gorilla suit and walks around Champaign, Illinois.





Dan's presentation at TEDxUIUC
Dan gave a talk entitled "Counter-Intuition" on April 10, 2010.