A dyslexic man comes to a Toga party dressed as a goat
Finding a needle in a haystack
An illusion where the brain perceives movement in large areas of peripheral vision and mistakes it for movement of your head
The human brain can turn two dots with a line below them into a human face with expressions
Placing prisms over an animal’s eyes turns their vision upside-down. After a time the visual system compensates for the change, and must compensate again when the goggles are removed
Bulls are colour-blind and can only see in blue-yellow channels, so can’t distinguish the matador’s red cloth (muleta) from other red or green objects
Same Race Effect
Whining Suppressor
Our senses can only give us a rough idea of specific aspects of the visual world
fMRI Probing
Eye Movements and Cricket
Explosions with shrapnel in the first world war left many people with brain injuries, some received injuries to specific areas and suffered very specific loss of function, indicating the role of that section of the brain
Skinnydipping Dons
Spotlight of Attention
Habituation
Muller-Lyre Illusion
Emmet’s Law
Helmholtz vs Sherrington
The selective advantages of the evolution of new photoreceptors in tetrapods – the ability to distinguish objects by reflected spectrum in addition to illumination
Those people look like ants from up here’: An ant close up can be the same size on your retina as a person far away
Size After Effect
Selective pressures can only drive our brains to a certain size before other factors in the balance outweigh the advantages
A hypothetical neuron that is associated directly with a complex and specific concept or object
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