别轻易相信你看到的东西。耶鲁大学的研究表明，我们的大脑可能会骗我们哦~
PROBLEM: It's a contradiction that we've all experienced. Sometimes, the more we focus on certain objects, the more we misperceive where they are in relation to other objects.
问题：恍惚了？你一定也有这样的经历吧，一直盯着一个东西看，结果越看越别扭，越看越迷茫，不知道它为什么在那，跟周围的东西有什么关系。
METHODOLOGY: Yale University cognitive psychologists Brandon Liverence and Brian Scholl tested this phenomenon across three experiments, where 10 people each completed simple visual tasks. In one trial, participants watched four circles on a computer screen as they moved around on a computer monitor while rapidly changing colors. Before the movement began, two of the circles, the targets, flashed several times. During the ensuing motion, the participants were tasked to press a key whenever either of those targets turned red or blue. Then, after several seconds of motion, all of the circles disappeared. The participants then had to pinpoint the locations they'd last seen the circles.
实验方法：耶鲁大学著名心理学家Brandon Liverence和Brian Scholl让10个人分别完成一些简单的视觉测试，通过三组实验来研究这一现象。其中一组实验中，受试者要在计算机屏幕上盯着快速变换颜色同时移动着的4个圆圈。在圆圈开始移动之前，其中两个圆圈，也就是此项实验中的目标圆圈，会迅速闪烁几下。在紧接着的移动中，受试者的任务就是要在任何一个目标圆圈变红或变蓝时按下键盘。几秒钟的移动过后，所有的圆圈消失。受试者要指出圆圈最后出现的位置。
RESULTS: Overall, the subjects located the objects with high accuracy. But the targets were seen as closer together than they really were, while the other objects were seen as farther apart than they really were.
结果：总体而言，所有受试者都能精准地定位目标圆圈。但他们会觉得目标圆圈间的距离比实际上的近，而其他圆圈间的距离比实际距离远。
CONCLUSION: Consistent with past research, participants reported circle locations that were all slightly compressed toward the center of the display, as if the mind's representation of the world were shrunk. Interestingly, the authors also observed that the subjects remembered the two target circles as closer to each other than they actually were, as if they were attracting each other, and reported the other two circles as farther apart than they'd been, as if they were repelling each other.
结论：与过去的研究一致，受试者都会觉得圆圈的位置在向屏幕中心靠拢，就好像他们的头脑中的世界在缩水。有趣的是，笔者也观察到，受试者记忆中的目标圆圈间的距离比实际距离短，就像它们互相吸引一样；反过来，其他两个圆圈间的距离在受试者的记忆中被拉大了，就好像它们会互相排斥一样。
IMPLICATION: The findings add to a growing body of cognitive psychology research that destabilizes our trust in what we think we know for sure. As Liverence puts it, "We tend to think that attention clarifies what's out there. But it also distorts."
启示：这项发现又给认知心理学研究添上了浓重的一笔，认知心理学实际上就是在告诉我们，我们所一直确信的东西实际上可能是不可靠的。就像Liverence说的，“我们试图去相信注意力能让我们更清楚的观察世界。实际上，注意力也有可能扭曲世界。“
SOURCE: The full study, "Selective Attention Warps Spatial Representation: Parallel but Opposing Effects on Attended vs. Inhibited Objects," is published in the journal Psychological Science.
来源：完整的研究“"Selective Attention Warps SpatialRepresentation: Parallel but Opposing Effects on Attended vs. Inhibited Objects,"已在Psychological Science杂志上发表
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