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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Optical illusions are cleverly designed to distort reality, but did you know that the same distortions occur frequently in everyday life?
Feb 12, 2019
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New research shows that neuromuscular changes during pregnancy lead to bouts of lower-back pain and not an increase in the lumbar curvature, as has traditionally been thought
Sep 10, 2018
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In a new study published in the journal Peer J this week, researchers at UniSA's Body in Mind Research Group have found people suffering osteoarthritis in the knees reported reduced pain when exposed to visual illusions that ...
Jul 18, 2018
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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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Deep neural networks (DNNs), which have been developed with reference to the network structures and the operational algorithms of the brain, have achieved notable success in a broad range of fields, including computer vision, ...
Mar 20, 2018
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People with prosthetic arms or hands do not experience the "size-weight illusion" as strongly as other people, new research shows.
Jan 22, 2018
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Pain is never a nice things to experience, but it is one of the most useful bodily signals we have. It acts like an alarm system – sending an immediate message for highly harmful and potentially fatal conditions – so ...
Aug 31, 2017
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A dress with optical illusion patterns such as stripes or color blocking can alter how women see their bodies, according to a new study by a Florida State University researcher.
Dec 1, 2016
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The 'Müller-Lyer illusion' is not a phenomenon that sounds familiar to many people. However, most of us have seen the image of two arrow-like lines, one with normal arrowheads at each end and the second with inverted arrows ...
Nov 9, 2016
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