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From the psychologists who created the "invisible gorilla" experiment, a blog about how cognitive illusions and mistaken intuitions affect all of us, every day, whether we know it or not. 
by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons

My talk at TEDxUIUC

Dan Simons speaks on "counter-intuition" at TEDxUIUC.
Published on May 27, 2010 by Daniel Simons in The Gorilla Guys

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Back on April 10, 2010 I gave a talk at the TEDxUIUC conference entitled "Counter-Intuition." The video is finally available on YouTube. I touch on some of the same topics we discuss in our book, The Invisible Gorilla. I hope you enjoy it!



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Daniel Simons is a professor at the University of Illinois and co-author of The Invisible Gorilla, and Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us.

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