Sentences with phrase «illusory perceptions»

Such illusory perceptions evaporated when participants were first denied control but then given an opportunity to write about their most deeply held values, an activity that bolsters psychological security and quells feelings of helplessness.

This seems to be a state that is prone to lead to illusory perceptions,» Blanke says.

So when you look for a while at Clinton and then quickly glance at Clintush, you will perceive Bush, although this illusory perception quickly dies away, and the picture becomes ambiguous again.

To induce an illusory perception of the material properties of the hand, a group of neuroscientists from Bielefeld University, the Max - Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (Germany), and the University of Milano - Bicocca (Italy) asked volunteers to sit with their hands lying on a table in front of them.

This has a crucial effect on the overall pictorial appearance, in that it immediately transforms the planimetric structure of the painted motif into an illusory perception of three - dimensionality within the image.

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Best Quote: «Today, cognitive neuroscience is proving that humans make decisions irrationally, perception is illusory, and our minds are designed for self - deception.

We must admit that the condemnation ingredient in anger always involves an illusory self - perception.

Such passages as the following seem to suggest that the evidence Whitehead offers for believing that CE is a unique kind of perception and that it is not illusory, i.e., supplies the subject with (more or less) accurate information about its environment, is primarily a particular kind of «experience.»

Insofar as CE is perception of past and therefore actual events, it is not necessarily illusory.

WARPED PERCEPTIONS As a two - time All - American golfer for the University of Georgia, I can personally attest to the illusory perspective that the hole is larger on some days compared with others, as Andrea Anderson writes in «Towering Targets» [Head Lines].

To experience stronger illusory motion perception, please refer to «Akiyoshi's illusion pages.»

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

To achieve this perception, the brain has to «hallucinate» an illusory frosted glass spreading, even in the area surrounding the central region of the cross.

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.

The perception that Kenya would widen and deepen its democratic practices after the retirement of long serving President Daniel Arap Moi in 2002 proved to be illusory.

With a sustained interest in geographic and atmospheric phenomena, her practice seeks to examine the changing possibilities and conditions of perception and light, tracing the illusory spaces that can both imitate and invert the natural world.

From his early works in the 1990s, such as the «illusory» optical machine Beauty (1993), to the architectural project developed together with Henning Larsen Architects (Reykjavik Concert Hall, 2005 - 2011), to his recent «total artworks» like Seu corpo da obra (2011) and installations like Big Bang Fountain (2015), Eliasson always expresses his fascination with the world of perceptions, sometimes physical, sometimes immaterial — but always transforming passive visitors into «inhabitants», as well as with the hybridization of different languages, means of expression and temporal planes.

The hard - edge, geometric compositions from Fleming's current body of work have a strong dialogue with the paintings from the 1960s, as both explore illusory effects and challenge visual perception.

He creates illusory images and disconcerting effects that challenge the viewer's perception.

As with the shadow boxing practice in which the athlete spars with his or her own shadow, Bolt finds that the illusory qualities of abstract composition initiate a similar exercise of perception and expectation.

Illusory and intransigent, these pieces seemed to bend the possibilities of what could be achieved through Turrell's chosen medium, and were the beginning of his artistic explorations of our perceptions and overall reaction to light as an art form.

Emerging from her studies about the time of the Op Art movement and that seminal exhibition, The Responsive Eye, presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1965 and organized by William C. Seitz, Rector could not help but be influenced by the hard - edge structures, dizzying lines, geometric forms and high key and high contrast colors that created optical and illusory effects challenging visual perception.

After his segue through figurative abstraction in the 80s and 90s, Fleming made a return to geometric abstraction in the 2000's with an emphasis on illusory compositions and visual perception.

There is a strong interaction as both explore illusory effects and challenge visual perception.

Statements such as these, Pindyck implies, create a «perception of knowledge and precision, but that perception is illusory and misleading».

IAM - based analyses of climate policy create a perception of knowledge and precision, but that perception is illusory and misleading.