[http://youtu.be/JiTz2i4VHFw] (YouTube link)There's fast thinking and there's slow thinking, and if your consciousness mistakes one system for the other, you might come to the wrong conclusions. Still, if we didn't use f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/04/This-Is-How-Your-Brain-Works/Conventional wisdom holds that seeing someone nake... ...t that a glimpse of flesh strongly influences our perception of Erin/Aaron. When the pictures only showed a fa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/02/the-psychology-of-nakedness/Marketing lore and common sense tells us we value the things we make more than the things we buy already made. That even holds true when we assemble things from a kit, according to research published in the Journal of Co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/23/the-ikea-effect/Brain scanning technology is teaching us how very versatile or brains are. For example, what is happening in the visual cortices of people who have been blind since birth? A series of experiments in which blind subjects...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/02/the-human-visual-cortex-can-do-language-too/Designer John Leung from ClarkeHopkinsClarke Architects presents the "Bias of Thoughts" Bookshelf. How does this illusion work? You can figure it out by seeing pictures of the bookshelf from different angles and a vi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/02/bias-of-thoughts-bookshelf/The old parlor trick of staring at yourself in a mirror until your face starts to change has now been studied scientifically. Giovanni Caputo led a study in which 50 people tried the trick and reported their reactions.At...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/09/19/the-strange-face-in-the-mirror-illusion/When you see the moon rising or setting over the landscape, it seems so big and close that you could reach out and touch it. Then a couple of hours later when it's high in the sky, it seems so much smaller! Why does the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/05/13/the-moon-illusion/Is there something in our brains that make humans see the same geometric patterns during drug use, illness, or near-death experiences? Even pressing on our eyes can induce the same spirals other people see. Research by p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/17/math-and-hallucinations/According to a new study published in Nature, our skin helps us decipher the sounds we hear with our ears. Blindfolded volunteers listened to the "pa", "ta", "da", and "ba" sounds. Unknown to the participant, a puff of a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/26/people-hear-with-their-skin-as-well-as-their-ears/A team led by psychologist Martin Doherty of t... ...bigger. For 4- to 6-year-olds, accuracy of size perception for misleading images remained at about what it w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/23/kids-not-fooled-by-visual-illusion/
