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Showing posts with label sensory interpretation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sensory interpretation. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 22, 2023

The phantom touch illusion

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It seems like every time researchers look further into our sensory-perceptive systems, we have another hole punched in our certainty that wh...
Thursday, June 15, 2023

Trompe l'oeil

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I have a fascination for optical illusions. Not only are they cool, they often point out some profound information about how we process sens...
Friday, December 9, 2022

It's a bird, it's a plane... no, it's both

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One topic I've come back to over and over again here at Skeptophilia is how flawed our sensory/perceptive apparatus is.  Oh, it works w...
Monday, March 28, 2022

Effect-before-cause

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Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson said (apropos of UFO sightings), "The human brain and perceptual systems are rife with ways of getti...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

The stone hand illusion

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One of the reasons I trust science is that I have so little trust in my own brain's ability to assess correctly the nature of reality. ...
Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Color my world

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Perception is such a mystery. Neuroscientist David Eagleman, in his brilliant TED talk " Can We Create New Senses For Humans? ",...
Thursday, May 16, 2019

Walls in our minds

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One of the biggest unsolved mysteries of science is how the brain encodes what we know, think about, and experience. For many types of inf...
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Gordon Bonnet
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