Psychology & Psychiatry
Looking good? Your brain might be playing tricks on you
Your brain can make a psychological illusion with your body image, making you think you are a bit thinner or fatter than you really are.
May 3, 2018
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Neuroscience
Neuroscientists find famous optical illusion surprisingly potent (w/ video)
(Medical Xpress) -- Scientists have come up with new insight into the brain processes that cause the following optical illusion:
Jun 27, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Scientists trick the brain into Barbie-doll size
(Medical Xpress) -- Imagine shrinking to the size of a doll in your sleep. When you wake up, will you perceive yourself as tiny or the world as being populated by giants? Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden may ...
May 25, 2011
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Neuroscience
Brain represents optical illusion as delayed reality
A study of humans and monkeys published in JNeurosci has found the same subset of neurons encode actual and illusory complex flow motion. This finding supports, at the level of single neurons, what the Czech scientist Jan ...
Feb 18, 2019
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Neuroscience
Motion perception revisited: High Phi effect challenges established motion perception assumptions
(Medical Xpress)—Optical illusions abound in human visual perception, as demonstrated by the following well-known examples. Although many are static illusions, motion illusions also occur. Recently, scientists at Université ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Depression study reveals two sides to illusion of control
(Medical Xpress) -- A study into depression is shedding new light on a fascinating facet of human psychology - that we can readily delude ourselves into thinking we control events, even when we know we do not.
Sep 9, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Putting the body back into the mind of schizophrenia
A study using a procedure called the rubber hand illusion has found striking new evidence that people experiencing schizophrenia have a weakened sense of body ownership and has produced the first case of a spontaneous, out-of-body ...
Oct 31, 2011
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Optical Illusion experiment shows higher brain functions involved in pupil size control
(Medical Xpress) -- We all know that our pupils contract when our eyes are exposed to increases in the brightness of light. The reason is to both protect the delicate inner workings of our eyes and to help provide for optimum ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Illusion can halve the pain of osteoarthritis, scientists say (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A serendipitous discovery by academics at The University of Nottingham has shown that a simple illusion can significantly reduce -- and in some cases even temporarily eradicate -- arthritic pain in the hand.
Apr 14, 2011
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Neuroscience
Heart in your hand? Neuroscientists discover a new illusion of consciousness
The sight of a virtual-reality hand pulsing in time with your heart beat is enough to convince your brain that it's part of your body, according to a new study published this week from the Sackler Centre for Consciousness ...
Sep 2, 2013
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