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·February 15, 2016·8 min read

The God Brain: Roundtable Discussion on God and Spirituality for Brain Games

Is belief in God innate in our brains, as if it were installed by some divine programmer? Or is spirituality a more complex evolving adaptation that has both helped and harmed us as a species? National Geographic's Brain Games asks Neuroscience News.
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FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience
·July 12, 2017·4 min read

Exposure to a Common Visual Illusion May Enhance Your Ability to Read Fine Print

According to University of York researchers, the ability to read fine print may be enhanced following exposure to a common visual illusion. The researchers found visual acuity may be enhanced by the expanding motion aftereffect optical illusion.
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·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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FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience
·March 20, 2018·4 min read

Illusory Motion Reproduced by Deep Neural Networks Trained for Perception

Researchers have successfully reproduced illusory motion in deep neural networks that were trained for perception. The DNNs were able to accurately reproduce the direction of illusory rotation humans observe while looking at a popular optical illusion.
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·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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FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience
·July 1, 2015·4 min read

Making Sense of the Visual World: Seeing is Believing

A new study addresses the nature and origin of neural signals involved in solving perceptual tasks.
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FeaturedNeuroscience VideosOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience
·June 22, 2015·4 min read

Hitting That Curveball: Brain and Phone GPS Apply Same Algorithm to Track Moving Objects

Researchers report the Kalman filter, an algorithm both our brains and GPS systems use to track an object's position, can be tricked by the pattern of motion.
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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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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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·April 24, 2012·2 min read

How Your Eyes Deceive You

Researchers at the University of Sydney have thrown new light on the tricks the brain plays as it struggles to...
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FeaturedNeuroscience
·December 6, 2015·3 min read

Relative Perception of the World

Researchers use optical illusions to investigate how flies process contrast and motion.
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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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