In the study, online participants performed better when two balls moved in tandem before disappearing, but their performance remained far worse than when the two balls stayed visible until impact.
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Confirmed by Harvard Gazette/AP syndication (medicalxpress, goodmenproject) and the peer-reviewed Nature Communications study describing the experimental conditions and results. [tier=gold indep_score=0.867 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Researchers uncover surprising limit on human imagination (seed:psychology_and_neuroscience)
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-61021-8 (corroboration)
- https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-uncover-limit-human.html (corroboration)
- https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/researchers-uncover-surprising-limit-on-human-imagination/ (corroboration)