Category: Reality
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Rubber hand, "reality", perception…
First demonstrated over 14 years ago, the rubber hand illusion has proven a valuable tool for investigating how the brain combines information from different senses – including proprioception, the body's sense of its own position – to create our sense of bodily ownership. Fifteen volunteers took part in an experiment in which one of their…
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Bending light…
Bend the light. Hide objects. (1, 2) Now you see me. Now you don't. Seems so crude. But so real at the same time…
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Cockroaches, senses, "reality"
Cockroaches that don’t fall for traps’ sweet poisons have evolved taste cells that register sugar as bitter. [1] People use to trust their senses. But how can you trust something that changes at "will"?
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Reality like Dreams...
A computer can decode the stuff of dreams. By comparing brain activity during sleep with activity patterns collected while study participants looked at certain objects, a computer learned to identify some contents of people’s unconscious reveries. [1] "It's striking work" says cognitive psychologist Frank Tong of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, who was not involved in…
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Crowe, UFOs, vision distortion...
Russell Crowe claims he has caught a UFO on camera. Many others refute this claim by "explaining" the visual effect seen with a much more "logical" way. (1, 2, 3, 4) It is true that UFO camera pictures are often attributed to mirror lense / optical system distortions from a passing sailing boat. But what…
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