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[wander_realtai]

Schizophrenic brains not fooled by optical illusion?

Oh, this opens up all sorts of discussion potential.

Take a look at the article:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/schizoillusion/

Thoughts?

Comments

[10docandr.livejournal.com]

That was an interesting article. I'm amazed at how intricate the human brain is.

[wander-realtai.livejournal.com]

I think that what most interests me about the article and the illusions discussed in it is that it is the brain's perception of how things are-- e.g., the face recognition ability of the mind-- that creates the illusion. In this case, the perception is wrong, but the mind still interprets the image as convex, despite knowing it's actually concave as the reverse/hollow side of the mask, because it has difficulty breaking out of that perception. Kind of a mind bender, no?