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Illusion Sciences: why are we surprised by only some of the things that we see?

Arthur Shapiro blogging on research-generated phenomena. A new illusion whenever I can get around to it.

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About Me

Arthur Shapiro: Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, American University in Washington DC. This blog is intended as a venue to discuss the “illusions” that I (and many vision scientists) create in order to study visual perception.

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Blog Archive (previous illusions)

▼ 2008 (16)
- ▼ December (1)
  - Rotating Reversals
- ► September (1)
  - Four Bars: wiggle wiggle
- ► August (2)
  - 100th anniversary of “A New Visual Illusion of Dir...
  - Thin lines can stop the perception of "winking"
- ► July (1)
  - The FedEx Arrow
- ► June (4)
- ► May (4)
- ► April (2)
  - Lucy in the Sky
  - Window Shade/Rocking Disk Illusion
- ► February (1)
  - Why a blog about illusions?

Links

My cv
Shapiro illusions (my demonstration webpage)
Exploratorium: the museum of science, art and human perception
Michael Bach's illusion site (I frequently use this site in my classes)
Akiyoshi Kitaoka's illusion pages
Stuart Anstis' demonstration page
Viperlib Visual Perception Library
VisionScience.Com: information for vision science

Blogroll

Cognitive Daily
Freakonomics
How We Drive
Mind Hacks
Mixing Memory
Neuroanthropology
Neurophilosophy
On The Brain
The Frontal Cortex
The Situationist
The Splintered Mind

Adobe, Art and Design

Actionscript.org
Cheryl Bernstein.
David O'Reilly
Photoshop TV
The Flash Blog

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