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·August 26, 2020·4 min read

How ‘Swapping Bodies’ With a Friend Changes Our Sense of Self

Friends who "swapped bodies" using virtual reality to generate the perceptual illusion found their beliefs about their personalities altered to become more similar to the beliefs about their friends' personalities. Findings suggest that when our mental self-concept doesn't match our physical self, our memories become impaired.

The researcher's finger in the device.

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·April 8, 2016·4 min read

Finger Fooled: New Perceptual Illusion Discovered

Researchers claim they are able to 'outwit' human perception.

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·October 13, 2015·3 min read

What Happens When Your Brain Can’t Tell Which Way is Up?

A new study on the International Space Station is being conducted to help researchers understand how the brain changes in space and develop ways to deal with those changes.

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·April 27, 2015·5 min read

Brain Balances Perception and Action When Caught in an Illusion

A new study sets out to understand how the brain determines the location of nearby objects.

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·April 24, 2015·3 min read

Becoming The Invisible Person

Researchers investigate how a perceptual illusion of being invisible affects physical stress response in social situations.

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·October 2, 2014·3 min read

Why Wet Feels Wet: Understanding the Illusion of Wetness

A new study presents a neurophysiological model which explains how humans sense wetness.