Sentences with phrase «visual illusion»

She has been devoted to work in visual illusion for over twenty years.

Individuals with a smaller primary visual cortex perceived a much more pronounced visual illusion than those individuals with a larger visual cortex.

The Leaning Tower Illusion — which won first prize in the Neural Correlate Society's Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest in 2007 — reveals the way in which the visual system uses perspective to help reconstruct 3 - D objects.

Photographs, particularly those in online dating profiles, can never show us the reality of what we would think of that person in real life, primarily due to technologies like Photoshop, which create visual illusions that projects deceptive characteristics from the one displaying the image.

It does this by using certain unconscious assumptions about the statistics of the natural world — suppositions that can be revealed by visual illusions.

And as a plethora of books on visual illusions illustrate, often our senses can be fooled — we see something that is not there.

Kingdom and colleagues first announced the illusion at the 2007 Best Visual Illusion of the Year contest, where it won the First Prize.

CUBU has you try to follow number and color sequences with visual illusion that leads to confusion.

Scientists presented various visual illusions to subjects, like one where two equal circles are often perceived as being different sizes.

In her article «Why your brain flips over visual illusions», Jessica Griggs highlights work suggesting that the superior parietal lobe...

Now some studies have shown that the differences are likely cultural: the Müller - Lyer visual illusion, which shows two lines of equal length where one is often perceived, at least by American undergrads, as longer than the other, is actually not an illusion at all for the San foragers of the Kalahari.

Symptoms include mental dullness, strange visual illusions, spatial disorientation, and even an apparent dissociation between the body and the brain's sense of self.

Endler is now using video cameras to test whether bowerbirds that create the best visual illusion increase their mating success.

Visual illusions show us that color, brightness and shape are not absolute terms but are subjective, relative experiences actively created by complicated brain circuits.

This is the second article in a new Mind Matters series on the neuroscience behind visual illusions.

The annual contest, which we organized and which is hosted by the Neural Correlate Society, celebrates the ingenuity and creativity of the world's premier visual illusion creators, both artists and scientists.

Contestants submit novel visual illusions (that is, unpublished, or published no earlier than the previous year).

DISCOMBOBULATING COLOR Here is a great cognitive visual illusion that involves a conflict between the syntactic and symbolic processing systems in your brain.

Animal Visual Illusion and Confusion: The Importance of a Perceptual Perspective.

A New Visual Illusion: Neonlike Color Spreading and Complementary Color Induction between Subjective Contours.

Researchers at Radboud University use visual illusions to demonstrate to what extent the brain interprets visual signals.

4/11/2007 Wired for Sound: How the Brain Senses Visual Illusions In a study that could help reveal how illusions are produced in the brain's visual cortex, researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have found new evidence of rapid integration of auditory and visual sensations... More...

Based on a combination of tesselations that create balance from symmetrical repetitions and visual illusion techniques such as trompe - l'œil, his multi-layered patterned compositions create a poetic rhythm that plays with the viewer's perception and the possibilities of interpretation.

Shelley was fascinated by the compelling visual illusions generated by this remarkable material and started to work with scientists to understand and explore these phenomena.

But visual illusions of various kinds show us that this isn't always the case.

Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez - Conde, experts on visual illusions, show how researchers exploit our error - ridden models of reality in «Mind - Warping Visions.»

I read the «Why your brain flips over visual illusions» article (4 September, p 14), then the piece «Weird water...

Even in a so - called visual illusion, where, for instance, the space behind the mirror is illustrated in presentational immediacy, there is no mistake.

Research released today in Nature Neuroscience finds that we are are more likely to be tricked by a visual illusion if we have a smaller amount of brain real estate devoted to visual processing.

He then put his intact right arm on the right side, so its reflection was seen in the mirror superimposed on the phantom, creating the visual illusion of having restored the missing arm.

Right: A lifetime of blindness has left May insusceptible to visual illusions.

Ramachandran developed a «mirror box» that creates the visual illusion of two hands for people who actually only have one (see They do it with mirrors).

Thus, the study of visual illusions — and the laws they exploit — offers clues to certain otherwise mysterious trends in evolution.

Normal kids find it frustrating to copy a picture containing a visual illusion, such as M. C. Escher's drawing in which water flows uphill.

This article was originally published with the title «Sculpting the Impossible: Solid Renditions of Visual Illusions»

We would like to consider here some tactile illusions that bear a striking similarity to visual illusions.

Last, look at the visual illusion above (c).

Visual illusions are defined by the dissociation between physical reality and subjective perception of an object or event.

Adding to the visual illusion is the unusual behaviour of the chick — it does not beg for food as soon as the parent appears, it assumes the new arrival is a potential predator and so it behaves accordingly until the parent gives a particular call.

Reading Jessica Griggs's recent news story on visual illusions (4 September, p 14), I was reminded of a picture I...

Visual illusions may be more than a by - product of efforts to «make sense of partial visual details» as you quote...

Another suggestion is that the stripes create a visual illusion, which makes the zebra look bigger that it is.

The results obtained by the Radboud University researchers are illustrated, for example, by the visual illusion provided: we see a triangle that in fact is not there.

The results obtained by the Radboud University researchers are illustrated, for example, by the visual illusion on the left: we see a triangle that in fact is not there.

«The most surprising is that we found a new class of visual illusions with such a wide breadth, affecting many different types of stimuli and large parts of the visual field,» Otten adds.

Ending January 2 Artist M. C. Escher famously created «impossible» visual illusions, such as never - ending staircases, perpetually flowing streams and off - kilter perspectives.

«Our findings show that, under the right circumstances, a large part of the periphery may become a visual illusion,» says psychology researcher Marte Otten from the University of Amsterdam, lead author on the new research.

What we see in the periphery, just outside the direct focus of the eye, may sometimes be a visual illusion, according to new findings published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

It's the visual illusion of a V structure, achieved through wide shoulders and back narrowing into a small waist.