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  2. Unconscious cognition - Wikipedia

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    The numerous examples of optical illusions, hallucinations and other tricks that the unconscious brain plays on the conscious brain provide ample evidence of the active role of the unconscious mind during data gathering and analysis. Several experiments have been performed to show that the unconscious brain is able to gather data at a much ...

  3. Optical illusion - Wikipedia

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    Optical illusion is also used in film by the technique of forced perspective. Op art is a style of art that uses optical illusions to create an impression of movement, or hidden images and patterns. Trompe-l'œil uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that depicted objects exist in three dimensions.

  4. Illusion - Wikipedia

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    Example of visual illusion: a real gecko hunts the pointer of a mouse, confused with a prey An optical illusion. Square A is exactly the same shade of grey as Square B. (See Checker shadow illusion.) A visual illusion or optical illusion is characterized by visually perceived images that are deceptive or misleading

  5. List of optical illusions - Wikipedia

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    The Hollow-Face illusion is an optical illusion in which the perception of a concave mask of a face appears as a normal convex face. Hybrid image: A Hybrid image is an optical illusion developed at MIT in which an image can be interpreted in one of two different ways depending on viewing distance. Illusory contours

  6. Persistence of vision - Wikipedia

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    Persistence of vision is the optical illusion that occurs when the visual perception of an object does not cease for some time after the rays of light proceeding from it have ceased to enter the eye. [1] The illusion has also been described as "retinal persistence", [2] "persistence of impressions", [3] simply "persistence" and other variations ...

  7. Unconscious inference - Wikipedia

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    While optical illusions are the most obvious instances of unconscious inference, people's perceptions of each other are similarly influenced by such unintended, unconscious conclusions. Helmholtz's second example refers to theatrical performance, arguing that the strong emotional effect of a play results mainly from the viewers' inability to ...

  8. Cognitive science - Wikipedia

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    Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary, scientific study of the mind and its processes. [2] ... The Necker cube, an example of an optical illusion An optical ...

  9. Multistable perception - Wikipedia

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    Examples of visually ambiguous patterns. From top to bottom: Necker cube , Schroeder stairs and a figure that can be interpreted as black or white arrows. Multistable perception (or bistable perception ) is a perceptual phenomenon in which an observer experiences an unpredictable sequence of spontaneous subjective changes.