May 30, 2008 | 4 comments

What Dictionaries and Optical Illusions Say About Our Brains

Cognitive scientist Mark Changizi does not bother with how the brain accomplishes a task, but rather why it performs the function in the first place.

By Nikhil Swaminathan   

 
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THE ORBISON ILLUSION: What Dictionaries and Optical Illusions Say About Our Brains :: Cognitive scientist Mark C

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THE ORBISON ILLUSION:The squares in the grid should appear to be distorted. This effect was first described by German psychologist Walter Ehrenstein in 1925.
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