What Cats Taught Us About Perception
Can you see what I see? Let me know if you were tricked by these illusions! SUBSCRIBE to BrainCraft! Click here: http://ow.ly/rt5IE ↓ MORE LINKS BELOW ↓ BrainCraft is written and hosted...
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I'm going to show you some images and you're going to have to make some quick decisions. Is line a or line b longer? Is the horizontal or vertical line longer? Is the top or bottom line longer? Keep looking... In all of these images they're actually the same length. You may have seen these before— but you're more susceptible to be tricked by these illusions — or not — depending on where you live. Two studies 50 years apart showed that non-Western people were less likely to be tricked by the Müller-Lyer or Parallelogram illusion than Europeans and Americans. And they were more susceptible to the horizontal-vertical illusion. The researchers suggest that the physical environment you live in shapes your susceptibility to certain illusion...
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I'm going to show you some images and you're going to have to make some quick decisions. Is line a or line b longer? Is the horizontal or vertical line longer? Is the top or bottom line longer? Keep looking... In all of these images they're actually the same length. You may have seen these before— but you're more susceptible to be tricked by these illusions — or not — depending on where you live. Two studies 50 years apart showed that non-Western people were less likely to be tricked by the Müller-Lyer or Parallelogram illusion than Europeans and Americans. And they were more susceptible to the horizontal-vertical illusion. The researchers suggest that the physical environment you live in shapes your susceptibility to certain illusion...
