The researchers' experiment involved balls bouncing as if on a racquetball court, with participants watching the animation until the balls vanished and then predicting when they would have reached the ground.
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- Researchers uncover surprising limit on human imagination (news.harvard.edu)
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-61021-8 (nature.com)
- https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-uncover-limit-human.html (medicalxpress.com)
- https://scienceblog.com/t-human-imagination-one-moving-object-serial-tracking-limit/ (scienceblog.com)
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