Citation

Wiseman R, Watt C. Iperception 2015; 6(1): 38-40.

Affiliation

Psychology Department, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; e-mail: caroline.watt@ed.ac.uk.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1068/i0706sas

PMID

26034570

PMCID

PMC4441020

Abstract

Perceptual science has frequently benefited from studying illusions created outside of academia. Here, we describe a striking, but little-known, example of inattentional blindness from the British comedy series "Monty Python's Flying Circus." Viewers fail to attend to several highly incongruous characters in the sketch, despite these characters being clearly visible onscreen. The sketch has the potential to be a valuable research and teaching resource, as well as providing a vivid illustration of how people often fail to see something completely different.

Language: en