Mind
2015 Illusion Champions Announced--The People Have Spoken!!
Congratulations to the winners of the 11th annual Best Illusion of the Year Contest, hosted by the Neural Correlate Society! See them here, NOW!
Illusion Chasers
Illusions, Delusions, and Everyday Deceptions
Mind
VOTE NOW for the Best Illusion of the Year--Until Friday, 7 P.M. Only!
Worldwide voting is now open to choose the Best Illusion of the Year, for 24 hours only, until 7 P.M. EDT, June 12. Go to the Best Illusion of the Year Contest Web site and choose your favorite illusion from the Top 10 finalists!...
Mind
Countdown to the World's 11th Annual Best Illusion of the Year Contest!
This Thursday and Friday is the launch of this year's Best Illusion of the Year Contest, hosted by the Neural Correlate Society, is now an annual online event, in which anybody with an internet connection (that means YOU!) can vote to pick the Top 3 Winners from the current Top 10 List...
Mind
Illusions in the Formerly Blind
Are illusions the exception or the rule in everyday vision? Do they represent visual processing errors or provide us with an evolutionary advantage? New research in lifelong blind people recently cured, may provide the answers...
Mind
The Current Biology of the Dress
This week the first wave of research from scientific journals has begun to be published; Current Biology has posted a trio of papers by three different prominent competing color vision labs, each describing their initial studies of The Dress...
Mind
The Best Illusions of 2014
Review the 2014 Illusion Contest Winners before the upcoming 2015 contest winners are announced!
Mind
Star Wars Day: May the Fourth Be with You
16-year-old Paul Vermeesch recreate the impossible structures in M.C. Escher's Relativity--but with a Star Wars theme--in LEGO.
Mind
The Neuroscience of Slydini's Paper Balls-to-Hat Magic Trick
Just as our visual system strains to see the vase and the two faces at once, we struggle to conceive of a motion that has a dual motivation: to put and to fetch.
Mind
The Implication of Motion
To celebrate our new article on implied motion in Scientific American Mind, here's a terrific movie of a chocolate zoetrope.
Mind
Why Babies (and Perhaps All of Us) Care About Magic
As adults, we don't often experience radical violations of our expectations, particularly those that concern core principles of object behavior.
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