Chapter 1
The tricks of vision
Chapter 2
The sound of silence
Chapter 3
The fragile vault of memory
Chapter 4
The phantom self
YOUR GOAL
Master of How your brain lies
Ch 1 · The tricks of vision
artiteacher The tricks of vision
Your brain constructs the world you see, Not just reflecting reality!
artiteacher Peripheral drift and motion illusions trick the brain's motion detectors.
artiteacher Color constancy is the brain's way of keeping colors stable under different lighting.
BETA
artiteacher Challenge your perception to discover how easily your mind can be fooled.
Fun Fact
Blind spot painting: Your brain constantly paints over the blind spot in each eye by copying patterns from the surrounding area, meaning you never notice the actual visual gap.
Glossary
illusion (noun)
Something that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived or interpreted by the senses. In 1889, Franz Müller-Lyer designed his famous distorting arrow experiment to study how eyes misinterpret visual cues.
Something that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived or interpreted by the senses. In 1889, Franz Müller-Lyer designed his famous distorting arrow experiment to study how eyes misinterpret visual cues.
Quiz
Which school of psychology, founded in Germany, explains how the brain groups individual visual elements into a whole?
Quiz
How much of a time delay is there in human visual processing, meaning we technically live slightly in the past?
Quiz
Which visual trick uses high-contrast shapes to make static images appear to spin?