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PUBLISHED: 17:15 EST, 12 February 2013 | UPDATED: 19:56 EST, 12 February 2013
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A new psychological study from Brigham and Women's Hospital has demonstrated how 83 percent of radiologists fail to spot the gorilla that is in the image below - despite running their eyes over it four times on average
Demonstrating the potentially life-threatening consequences of 'inattentional blindness' - missing something that is right in front of you - the gorilla test was conducted on 24 credentialed radiologists at the world-famous Boston hospital.
In the study, researchers asked 24 radiologists to look at a typical lung cancer screening using the CT scans of five patients. The first four patients scans were clean, but hidden in the stack of 239 images from the fifth patient were 5 consecutive scans showing the dancing gorilla.
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