The human brain only makes sense of the images we are seeing about one-tenth of a second after light hits the retina, meaning that in fact our visual system is somehow impaired by neural lag, for which the brain must compensate. How this is done is still under debate, with some scientists proposing that the motor sys... |
2 June 2008
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You can be fooled. But your hand surely cannot be. A new study published in the journal "Psychological Science" shows that our brain works with the images in two different pathways. The team led by psychologist Tzvi Ganel, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, tested the subjects with the "Ponzo" illusion, that make... |
11 March 2008
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The achievement of information on the environment through a sensory pathway is called perception. In the case of the human sight, the brain recognizes instantly a familiar object, from any angle and any distance.A book looks like a book, no matter if it is positioned vertically, horizontally or an edge. Still, the si... |
16 January 2008
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Spotty skin, shadows under their eyes - the celebrities we so often see strutting around catwalks and on red carpets are in the end only human. In a better world, I'd probably be able to say that this is OK and that there is nothing to be embarrassed or ashamed of, on the contrary. But in the merciless world of ... |
15 October 2007
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Researchers have just reached a profound conclusion: machines imitating human performances will do the same errors that we do. A vision computer program based on the human brain experiences the same optical illusions that people do, pointing to the fact that the illusions are a by-product of how during the infant sta... |
28 September 2007
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What is this? An image of a big airplane with a smaller one painted on its side? Or is it some weird project designed to confuse the enemy and maybe even birds? Actually, it's none of the above. This is just an optical illusion, one of the many tricks the brain plays on us.The brain's complexity is exactly... |
24 July 2007
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Nothing you haven't seen before I'm sure, but before you click on the video (I don't even know why I'm telling you this, by now you're probably half way through it), be advised that it's not something that youngsters should see, or hear. Yeah, there's nasty stuff to be heard as wel... |
9 May 2007
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Have you been trying for over an hour to figure out what that Picasso picture depicts?You should try it in complete silence...Because a new research reveals that what we hear can impair what we see. These findings could explain us how illusions are induced in the visual cortex, due to rapid integration of auditory an... |
12 April 2007
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