Category: Visual illusions

• Modifying body representation through vision and vice versa

  There’s a few interesting multi-modal illusions involving vision and another sense. Proprioception, the ability to sense the position of one’s body parts, is one sense that gets a bad rep; it’s not even included in the classic 5 senses. Yet it’s certainly quite important, and people that lose proprioception have difficulty functioning at first, a…

  May 30, 2012

• Experiential blindness through inversion glasses

  Inversion glasses, which invert the visual field along the left-right or up-down axes, have been used to investigate the link between action and perception for at least a 100 years (Stratton 1897). As I mentioned in my last post, they really mess up perception by disrupting the usual links between motor commands, optic flow, eye…

  May 22, 2012

• Nice set of color and brightness illusions

  Via Cracking the Enigma: some really nice visual illusions from Discover. Top image: the faces of the top and bottom blocks are the same shade of gray.

  June 6, 2011

• Flash lag effect demo

  Neato!

  March 14, 2008