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Optical illusions are fun and intriguing, and we don't always know why they happen. Here are some of our favourites. Square A and square B in the illustration above are the same colour. It seems ...

Current theories about visual perception assume that our perceptual system weights the a priori incomplete, noisy and ambiguous sensory information with previous, memorized perceptual experiences in ...

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Original audio clip comes from vocabulary.com and features voice repeating one word – but which one do you hear? A short audio clip of a computer-generated voice has become the most divisive subject ...

In order to classify different human brain states related to visual perception of ambiguous images, we use an artificial neural network (ANN) to analyze multichannel EEG. The classifier built on the ...

Synesthesia is a phenomenon in which additional perceptual experiences are elicited by sensory stimuli or cognitive concepts. Synesthetes possess a unique type of phenomenal experiences not directly ...

It's been like Democrats and Republicans after three quarts of wine-in-a-box. It's been almost as bad as Red Sox and Yankees fans litigating the trade of Babe Ruth. For the last 48 hours, the world ...

During sustained viewing of an ambiguous stimulus, an individual's perceptual experience will generally switch between the different possible alternatives rather than stay fixed on one interpretation ...