Posted in Illusions, The Brain from 25000 Feet, The Vision Revolution, tagged brain from 25000 feet, changizi, curved space, Illusions, non-euclidean, vision revolution on June 9, 2011 | 3 Comments »
You’ve heard that space is curved – that’s gravity. You’ve also been told that you cannot really understand curved space. Sure, you can come to know curvy mathematics by studying general relativity or differential geometry, but you cannot grasp curved space in your bones…for the obvious reason that, in our everyday human-level world, space is flat, and so we have a brain for thinking flat.
Or, at least, that’s what they say.
Posted in Illusions, tagged Illusions, invisible gorilla on February 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
To appreciate just how powerful is their sorcery, let’s start at the lowest level of real world sorcery, and build up to “the invisible gorilla.”
Posted in Illusions, The Vision Revolution, tagged Illusions, seeing the future, why we see illusions on November 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Why do we see illusions? I talk about it with Jorge Salazar at EarthSky. See the podcast, at about 4 minutes in. ~~ Mark Changizi is Professor of Human Cognition at 2AI, and the author of The Vision Revolution (Benbella Books) and the upcoming book Harnessed: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man [...]
Posted in Eye Computer, Illusions, tagged dna computation, eye computer, illusion, molecular computation, visual computation on June 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Can our vision be turned into a programmable computer?
Posted in Illusions, tagged brightness, headache, perception, sunlight, vision on April 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Migraine sufferers have long complained about how their headaches worsen with bright light, and in case you ever doubted their complaints, Rami Burstein and other researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah recently made a giant step in understanding the light-to-headache mechanism in Nature Neuroscience. They found [...]
Posted in Illusions, tagged catching a ball, football, Illusions, sports, vision, wide receiver on February 23, 2010 | 3 Comments »
It’s nearing the end of American football season, with the Super Bowl fast approaching. These games involve displays of tremendous strength, agility and heart. What you may not have known is that some of the most talented players out on the field are doing it all with their eyes closed. Literally. The American [...]
Posted in Illusions, The Vision Revolution, tagged Illusions, perception, The Vision Revolution, vision on January 11, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Click on each slide to see it in higher resolution. Mark Changizi is a professor of cognitive science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the author of The Vision Revolution (Benbella Books). For more information about my theory, see LiveScience, New York Times, BoingBoing, SciAm. The best introduction is chapter 3 of The Vision Revolution. And [...]
