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02-06-2007, 04:20 PM
Why do optical illusions trick our minds?
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Our minds try to see things in the most basic way. Upon seeing an optical illusion, we try to see basic objects or shapes, but when you look at individual parts, it doesn't make sense. Basically, it's our minds trying to find the easiest way to interpret the image
Taken from yahoo answers (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylc=X3oDMTFtMXI2N3ZvBF9TAzI3MTYxNDkEX3MDMzk 2NTQ1MTAzBHNlYwNmcm9udCBwYWdlBHNsawNGUC1Ub2RheUlud A--?qid=20061214072234AAEhKtj&fr=hp=1)
Optical illusion
An optical illusion is always characterized by visually perceived images that, at least in common sense terms, are deceptive or misleading. Therefore, the information gathered by the eye is processed by the brain to give, on the face of it, a percept that does not tally with a physical measurement of the stimulus source. A conventional assumption is that there are physiological illusions that occur naturally and cognitive illusions that can be demonstrated by specific visual tricks that say something more basic about how human perceptual systems work Optical illusion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
These [visual] neurons do encode size information, by virtue of the limited spatial extent of their receptive fields. http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/mar99/921824043.Ns.r.html
Many things can happen between the eye to the brain and back. http://www.mansfieldct.org/schools/mms/webprojects/light/Optical%20Illusions/How%20Do%20Optical%20Illusions%20Work.htm
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Our minds try to see things in the most basic way. Upon seeing an optical illusion, we try to see basic objects or shapes, but when you look at individual parts, it doesn't make sense. Basically, it's our minds trying to find the easiest way to interpret the image
Taken from yahoo answers (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylc=X3oDMTFtMXI2N3ZvBF9TAzI3MTYxNDkEX3MDMzk 2NTQ1MTAzBHNlYwNmcm9udCBwYWdlBHNsawNGUC1Ub2RheUlud A--?qid=20061214072234AAEhKtj&fr=hp=1)
Optical illusion
An optical illusion is always characterized by visually perceived images that, at least in common sense terms, are deceptive or misleading. Therefore, the information gathered by the eye is processed by the brain to give, on the face of it, a percept that does not tally with a physical measurement of the stimulus source. A conventional assumption is that there are physiological illusions that occur naturally and cognitive illusions that can be demonstrated by specific visual tricks that say something more basic about how human perceptual systems work Optical illusion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
These [visual] neurons do encode size information, by virtue of the limited spatial extent of their receptive fields. http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/mar99/921824043.Ns.r.html
Many things can happen between the eye to the brain and back. http://www.mansfieldct.org/schools/mms/webprojects/light/Optical%20Illusions/How%20Do%20Optical%20Illusions%20Work.htm