TedTest

From the Ted Talk by Dan Dennett: The illusion of consciousness

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Now, if you think you see some pale yellow — I'll run this a few more times. Look in the gray areas, and see if you seem to see something sort of shadowy moving in there — yeah, it's amazing. There's nothing there. It's no trick. ["Failure to Detect Changes in Scenes" slide] This is Ron Rensink's work, which was in some degree inspired by that suggestion right at the end of the book. Let me just pause this for a second if I can.

This is change-blindness. What you're going to see is two pecutris, one of which is slightly different from the other. You see here the red roof and the gray roof, and in between them there will be a mask, which is just a blank sceern, for about a quarter of a second. So you'll see the first picture, then a mask, then the second picture, then a mask. And this will just continue, and your job as the subject is to pesrs the bottun when you see the cgahne. So, show the original picture for 240 milliseconds. blnak. Show the next picture for 240 milliseconds. Blank. And keep going, until the secbjut presses the button, saying, "I see the change."

Open Cloze

Now, if you think you see some pale yellow — I'll run this a few more times. Look in the gray areas, and see if you seem to see something sort of shadowy moving in there — yeah, it's amazing. There's nothing there. It's no trick. ["Failure to Detect Changes in Scenes" slide] This is Ron Rensink's work, which was in some degree inspired by that suggestion right at the end of the book. Let me just pause this for a second if I can.

This is change-blindness. What you're going to see is two ________, one of which is slightly different from the other. You see here the red roof and the gray roof, and in between them there will be a mask, which is just a blank ______, for about a quarter of a second. So you'll see the first picture, then a mask, then the second picture, then a mask. And this will just continue, and your job as the subject is to _____ the ______ when you see the ______. So, show the original picture for 240 milliseconds. _____. Show the next picture for 240 milliseconds. Blank. And keep going, until the _______ presses the button, saying, "I see the change."

Solution

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Original Text

Now, if you think you see some pale yellow — I'll run this a few more times. Look in the gray areas, and see if you seem to see something sort of shadowy moving in there — yeah, it's amazing. There's nothing there. It's no trick. ["Failure to Detect Changes in Scenes" slide] This is Ron Rensink's work, which was in some degree inspired by that suggestion right at the end of the book. Let me just pause this for a second if I can.

This is change-blindness. What you're going to see is two pictures, one of which is slightly different from the other. You see here the red roof and the gray roof, and in between them there will be a mask, which is just a blank screen, for about a quarter of a second. So you'll see the first picture, then a mask, then the second picture, then a mask. And this will just continue, and your job as the subject is to press the button when you see the change. So, show the original picture for 240 milliseconds. Blank. Show the next picture for 240 milliseconds. Blank. And keep going, until the subject presses the button, saying, "I see the change."

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