Researchers found that human imagination's capacity for tracking disappeared moving objects was limited to one object, contrary to their initial expectation that it could track approximately three or four.
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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://www.earth.com/news/surprising-limits-of-human-imagination-revealed-by-science/ (earth.com)
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