The illusions of sight and sound
The tricks of memory and time
The biases in how we judge others and ourselves
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007skaty The McGurk Effect
You're watching 'ga' but hearing 'ba' play, And your brain changes it to 'da' anyway!
007skaty Researchers Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons tested human attention by asking viewers to count basketball passes while a
007skaty Polished, mirror-like models of an eye and ear gleam under dramatic studio lights.
007skaty Decode the quiet whispers to discover the inner truths you need to realize.
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.
In the 1998 door experiment, what percentage of people missed that their conversation partner had swapped?
Why don't you see the world blur when you quickly move your eyes from side to side?
Which auditory illusion creates the sensation of a sound that infinitely rises in pitch?
In the 1999 Harvard attention experiment, what unexpected figure walked across the basketball court?
What is the illusion where the second hand of a clock seems to freeze when you first look?
What happens during the McGurk effect when visual and auditory speech cues conflict?