Month: July 2012

Our test of auditory awareness features five actors who have so far remained anonymous. They were all members of our department at the time and they patiently put up with our demanding yet incompetent direction for several hours, to achieve the 69 second clip that we used in the final experiment. It is high time we acknowledged their contributions!

‘The women’s conversation’: Jac Billington and Samantha McCormick

‘The men’s conversation’: Charles Hounsell and Damian Poulter

‘The gorilla’: David Kelly

We are very excited about the continuing interest in our recent article. This work has been featured on NBC’s The Body Odd and in the latest issue of the BPS research digest. It is also being discussed on a range of other interesting blogs. (Polly has recently commented on one of these, to clarify the relationship between our work and the dichotic listening research of the 1950s and 60s).