Time-traveling illusion tricks the brain
Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - 15:00
in Psychology & Sociology
Researchers have developed two new illusions that reveal how the senses can influence each other -- in particular, how sound can give rise to visual illusions. These illusions occur so quickly that they illustrate a phenomenon called postdiction (as opposed to prediction) in which a stimulus that occurs later can retroactively affect our perceptions of an earlier event.