Sentences with phrase «illusory patterns»

Gaissmaier and Wilke's team focused on probability matching, an anomaly of choice that is related to the perception of illusory patterns.

The results showed that gamblers demonstrated more probability matching behavior and are thus obviously more likely to perceive illusory patterns.

The authors observe that illusory pattern perception «may not be entirely maladaptive» if by soothing uncertainty and restoring a sense of control, it encourages us to actively confront unpredictable circumstances rather than withdrawing from them.

Scientists had long hypothesized that conspiracy theory belief (which the researchers of a new paper define as «the assumption that a group of people colludes together in secret to attain evil goals») was due to a phenomenon known as «illusory pattern perception» — seeing patterns where none really exist.

Not exact matches

The notion of well - defined «racial types» is illusory but the search for links between particular DNA patterns and a person's race could give it a false importance

Pathological gamblers «see» patterns in things that are actually quite random and not really there, to such a degree that they are quite willing to impulsively bet good money on such illusory nonrandomness.

A small section of a display such as c is insufficient to generate noticeable motion, although the massively parallel signals from the highly repetitive patterns together produce strong illusory motion.

Sascha Braunig makes spooky, neo-Surrealistic portraits of imaginary people from illusory tubular elements and geometric patterns.

Glitches, bleeds and mis - registrations rupture the illusory field of the moiré, creating visual noise and also highlight the basic tools at work: taped - off line patterns and paint on canvas.

Whitaker's patterns employ illusory logic that is undermined by the messiness of photographic depiction, the imperfections in the paper itself and — at times — the pattern's refusal to adhere completely to its own rules.

The illusory effects were, and still are, created by taking advantage of meticulously executed combinations of the vibrational pairings of colors, fluorescent paint, use of line variations, geometric shapes and repeating patterns.

I allow the paint to bleed, smudge, peel back at times, which disrupts the illusory or pictorial space, emphasizing the materials and surface instead... the way in which I construct illusions of depth and space, where certain patterns seem to float in front of others, screens of lines that you are looking through, into another internal space.

When speaking about her process, «My paintings are constructed using a rule - based system to generate a series of interwoven layers of meticulous repeating patterns of dots, dashes, and grids in highly saturated, vibrant and illusory colors.

Beforehand we were only familiar with Escher's optical illusory works, yet the first few rooms show him experimenting with Cubism; an abstract work is inspired by dolphins he saw swimming alongside a boat, and the patterns they created on the water's surface.