A-01
Selective Attention
The Invisible Gorilla
Count what you're told to count, and discover what your attention deletes from the world.
Intro8 min
Personal cognitive training · open source
Ten measurable rooms. Trial-level logging. After each session, a debrief ties your numbers to the published paradigm. For yourself, at your pace.
Facility readout
We stopped asking students to define inattentional blindness on an exam. We ask them to explain why they missed the gorilla, using their own RT distribution.
Teaching note · Room A-01 · selective attention wing
Subject workflow
The app mirrors how participants move through a real study: consent and briefing, measured session, personal debrief, then the original paper. No dead ends between them.
Method
01
Each room ships with the original citation, learning objectives, and the exact variables the paradigm measures. You know what you are about to do.
02
Stimulus, response, latency, logged trial by trial with a monotonic clock. The HUD stays out of the way. The room does not.
03
Your accuracy, RT curve, and trial timeline compared to the original finding. Session notes suggest what to drill on the next rep.
Wing samples
Typical deployments
Intro psych cohorts
Stroop + framing as first-week demos
Methods seminars
Trial-level CSV export same afternoon
Science museums
Conformity chamber as floor exhibit
Cognitive labs
Kiosk mode, consent-gated collection
Instrument spec
Every session writes stimulus identity, response, and latency per trial. Consent and anonymization are part of the schema, not a settings afterthought.
10
Commissioned rooms
1935–1999 paradigms
48
Trials / session
median, main block
±1
ms resolution
performance.now()
CSV
Export format
trial-level, anonymized