Chances are Dan Simons is the only University of Illinois researcher with his own gorilla suit, for professional purposes anyway. Simons, a psychology professor in the UI's Beckman Institute, studies ...

In the late 1990s, two Harvard psychologists ran a now-famous experiment. In it, students watched a short video of six people ...

We are quite good at spotting unexpected objects while focused on another activity if they are moving fast, reveals a new study by a team of New York University researchers. Their findings cast doubt ...

When they taught together at Harvard in the late 1990s, psychologist Daniel Simons and his student Christopher Chabris got an idea for a new experiment testing how the brain processes visual ...