Great Example of Attentional Spotlight

I always find these attention demos fascinating, but this one has the added bonus of real-world applicability in legal cases. My old boss used to do human factors testimony, using HF to articulate exactly why that path wasn’t lit well enough, for example. I always found it fascinating… Too bad the results came too late to exonerate this guy!  

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/20/137086464/why-seeing-the-unexpected-is-often-not-believing?ft=1&f=1007