Can You See These Optical Illusions?
Can you see what I see? We all experience things subjectively, including how we perceive optical illusions. SUBSCRIBE to BrainCraft! Click here: http://ow.ly/rt5IE Talking psychology, neuroscience...
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Back in the mid 1800s, American psychologist Joseph Jastrow illustrated this animal. Some of you will see a duck, others a rabbit - but not both at once. The image itself allows for both interpretations and switching between them involves some mental effort. And when you look at the duck, for example, do you see the same duck that I see? When you and me both see the colour orange, do we experience the same hue? Or the same illusion? Research suggests the differences in our subjective experiences are tied to the different sizes of certain areas in our brain. In one study, researchers asked participants to judge which of these circles is larger. Even though you know these two circles are the same size, it’s almost impossible to see it that way. Using...
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Back in the mid 1800s, American psychologist Joseph Jastrow illustrated this animal. Some of you will see a duck, others a rabbit - but not both at once. The image itself allows for both interpretations and switching between them involves some mental effort. And when you look at the duck, for example, do you see the same duck that I see? When you and me both see the colour orange, do we experience the same hue? Or the same illusion? Research suggests the differences in our subjective experiences are tied to the different sizes of certain areas in our brain. In one study, researchers asked participants to judge which of these circles is larger. Even though you know these two circles are the same size, it’s almost impossible to see it that way. Using...
