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Trafton Drew

Trafton Drew stands in front of a circular emblem with a tree-like design, wearing glasses and a dark jacket over a collared shirt.

American cognitive scientist at the University of Utah whose 2013 study superimposed a small gorilla on a CT lung scan and showed that most experienced radiologists, hunting cancer nodules, looked directly at it without registering it. His research uses radiology, baggage screening, and other real-world search tasks to probe how expert attention works and where it predictably breaks.

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