This is work by Dan Simons

这是丹·赛门斯的实验
and it's part of an extraordinarily interesting body of work

这是他所进行的变化盲视实验中
on what's known as "Change blindness."

非常有趣的一部分
And what this means is, the phenomena is,

这意味着这种现象就是
we have a very narrow focus of attention

我们的注意范围非常狭窄
and huge changes can happen that we are oblivious to.

在我们不经意之间便有巨变发生
This is why, in movies,

这也是为什么在电影里
there are so many--so much difficulty with continuity changes.

一致性的改变会带来许多的理解困难
Dan Simons is also famous for having brought this

丹·赛门斯因将这一课题带出实验室
outside of the laboratory in some classic experiments

做了些经典实验而名声大噪
and I'm trying to get the film corresponding to them.

而我试着将影片和这些研究对应起来
What he did was that he did this great study

他在康奈尔大学的校园里