Offering participants a substantial monetary reward did not improve their ability to track two invisible balls in the study.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by multiple independent sources including a peer-reviewed study (Nature Communications) and PubMed listing. [tier=gold indep_score=0.867 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Researchers uncover surprising limit on human imagination (seed:psychology_and_neuroscience)
- https://ideas.repec.org/a/nat/natcom/v16y2025i1d10.1038_s41467-025-61021-8.html (corroboration)
- https://lacuna.tiptreesystems.com/work/the-capacity-limits-of-moving-objects-in-the-imagination/wrk_300ed260763e87e7c982ec6daa7a99e7 (corroboration)
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40595700/ (corroboration)