The newest Mind Blow on Vsauce2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkAIR5p9Ni8 LINKS AND SOURCES BELOW: FOLLOW MICHAEL STEVENS: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce music by http://www.youtube.com/Jake...
========== Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. This is a completely stillimage but as your eye reads well I'm
saying and jumps from word to word,the paragraph will appear to slightly, justsubtly, wave and boil. The allusion is called anomalousmotion. It's neat. But to say it's funis tautology because the wordillusion literally means to have fun,to mock, to play with. But illusions aren'tjust fun and games. They also teach usabout our brains. Anomalous motion,for instance, demonstrates that our brains processthings at different rates and piece by piece.After a saccade, a quick eye movement, higher contrastelements are perceived sooner than lower contrastones. When arranged in just the right way,
this delay is exploitedand your visual system only has on...
