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          optical illusions

          This shows a large black hole surrounded by small black dots on a white background
          FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience
          ·May 31, 2022·4 min read

          This Illusion, New to Science, Is Strong Enough to Trick Our Reflexes

          The highly dynamic, new "expanding hole" optical illusion can be perceived by 86% of people. The illusion is so good at deceiving the brain, it causes pupillary dilation as though we are walking into a darkened room.
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          This shows the face on mars
          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·July 8, 2021·5 min read

          There’s a ‘Man in the Moon’: Why Our Brains See Human Faces Everywhere

          Face pareidolia, a phenomenon where the brain is tricked into seeing human faces in inanimate objects, may occur as a result of the brain processing the perceived facial expression in the same sequential way it perceives a human face.
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          This shows the starburst optical illusion
          FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience
          ·June 29, 2021·3 min read

          A New Kind of Visual Illusion Uncovers How Our Brains Connect the Dots

          A newly designed optical illusion is helping researchers better understand visual processing and perception. The illusion creates a subjective reality in what we see, highlighting the constructive nature of perception.
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          FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience
          ·December 20, 2020·5 min read

          Visual Illusion That May Help Explain Consciousness

          A new visual illusion sheds light on redundancy masking and how we perceive our visual environment. The findings provide new insight into human consciousness.
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          This shows a swirling ring optical illusion
          FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience
          ·August 24, 2020·4 min read

          Optical Illusions Explained in a Fly’s Eyes

          It seems that flies are as susceptible to optical illusions as humans. Turning on and off some neurons that govern motion detection in flies, researchers were able to alter the insects' perception of illusory motion.
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          This shows a face on a tree
          FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience
          ·August 14, 2020·6 min read

          Why the Brain Is Programmed to See Faces in Everyday Objects

          Face pareidolia, the phenomenon of seeing facelike structures in inanimate objects, is a perceptual phenomenon that occurs when sensory input is processed by visual mechanisms that have evolved to extract social content from human faces.
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          This shows two dots against a monochrome gradient background
          FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience
          ·June 17, 2020·7 min read

          Study sheds light on a classic visual illusion

          A new study sheds light on why we get tricked by a classic optical illusion. Researchers found brightness estimations occur before visual information reaches the visual cortex, probably originating in the retina.
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          This shows a queezy optical illusion
          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychologyVisual Neuroscience
          ·July 27, 2019·3 min read

          The case against reality

          A new theory argues consciousness creates neural activity, and humans have evolved to see what is needed for survival. Perception, it is argued, is a user interface which may not necessarily be real.
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          This shows the same woman with a rosy skin overlay and a green skin overlay
          FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychologyVisual Neuroscience
          ·July 9, 2019·4 min read

          Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces

          Facial processing and color processing may engage in similar brain mechanisms.
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          This shows a beautiful waterfall
          FeaturedNeuroscienceNeuroscience VideosVisual Neuroscience
          ·May 31, 2019·4 min read

          Waterfall illusion: when you see still objects move – and what it tells you about your brain

          Researchers reveal what optical illusions tell us about the workings of the brain.
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          This shows stripped circles
          FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience
          ·May 21, 2019·4 min read

          Optical illusions reveal regular waves of brain activity enable visual feature integration

          Optical illusions are helping researchers better understand attention and visual perception. Findings suggest attention operates periodically on the perceptual binding of visual information.
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          pinna illusion
          FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience
          ·February 18, 2019·3 min read

          Brain Represents Optical Illusion as Delayed Reality

          Researchers report the same subset of neurons encode actual and illusory flow motion, supporting the concept Jan Purkinje proposed 150 years ago, that "illusions contain visual truth".
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