The great thing about geometrical-optical illusions is that you can stare and stare at them, know your brain is being fooled, and still see the illusion. So it is with the Müller-Lyer pulsating star.
At first glance, the two lines in the Müller-Lyer Illusion look unmistakably different, one appears longer, the other shorter, and your brain feels absolutely certain about it. But here’s the twist: ...
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(This is Part 2 of a two-part blog series.) Take a look below at the famous Müller-Lyer illusion. Every student of psychology knows that the two horizontal lines are actually the same length, even ...
THE WINDIEST DESERT — What's your favorite optical illusion? Famous examples include the Ames room, the Ponzo illusion, the Zöllner illusion, the Kanizsa triangle, the Müller-Lyer illusion and the ...
On the idea of learning to be less fooled by optical illusions, I do some lecture-performances to illusion-savvy audiences about pataphysics, art, zombie theory and so on. I tell them they just can’t ...
IN this little book Dr. Myers gives a very interesting account of modern views in certain parts of the science of experimental psychology. The topics selected for discussion, and forming the headlines ...