Earth is silently rewriting its own geography when we
Chapter 1

The illusions of sight and sound

Chapter 2

The tricks of memory and time

Chapter 3

The biases in how we judge others and ourselves

Ch 1 · The illusions of sight and sound
G
ghostgirl11

ghostgirl11 Tectonic plates silently shift the positions of Earth's continents.

9h ago

G
ghostgirl11
Glossary
inattentional blindness (noun)
A visual illusion where your brain fails to notice an obvious object because you are focusing on something else. It proves how much our minds hide, like completely missing a gorilla walking by.

9h ago

007skaty

007skaty Human attention limits cause people to miss obvious events in plain sight.

Oct 23

007skaty

007skaty The McGurk Effect

You're watching 'ga' but hearing 'ba' play, And your brain changes it to 'da' anyway!

Oct 23

007skaty

007skaty Visual cues change the sounds that human brains hear

Oct 23

007skaty

007skaty Every human eye contains a natural blind spot.

Oct 23

007skaty

007skaty Human brains fail to notice massive changes happening in plain sight

Oct 23

007skaty
Blink and Whisper
BETA

007skaty Decode the quiet whispers to discover the inner truths you need to realize.

Oct 23

007skaty
We mistake a seamless experience for an accurate one.

Oct 23

007skaty
Missing the gorilla in the room

007skaty Researchers Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons tested human attention by asking viewers to count basketball passes while a

Oct 23

007skaty
Fun Fact

The blind spot: Your brain uses clues from the surrounding background to guess and paint over your eye's blind spot, meaning part of what you see is always a complete fabrication.

Oct 23

007skaty
How eyes trick your ears

007skaty Polished, mirror-like models of an eye and ear gleam under dramatic studio lights.

Oct 23

007skaty
Quiz

In the 1998 door experiment, what percentage of people missed that their conversation partner had swapped?

Oct 23

007skaty
Gossip

Would you trust your eyes in a courtroom testimony?

Oct 23

007skaty
Quiz

Why don't you see the world blur when you quickly move your eyes from side to side?

Oct 23

007skaty
Gossip

Which trick of the mind is the most unsettling to experience?

Oct 23

007skaty
Quiz

Which auditory illusion creates the sensation of a sound that infinitely rises in pitch?

Oct 23

007skaty
Quiz

In the 1999 Harvard attention experiment, what unexpected figure walked across the basketball court?

Oct 23

007skaty
Quiz

What is the illusion where the second hand of a clock seems to freeze when you first look?

Oct 23

007skaty
Quiz

What happens during the McGurk effect when visual and auditory speech cues conflict?

Oct 23