Study finds age doesn't affect perception of 'speech-to-song illusion'
A strange thing sometimes happens when we listen to a spoken phrase again and again: It begins to sound like a song.
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A strange thing sometimes happens when we listen to a spoken phrase again and again: It begins to sound like a song.
Jun 3, 2021
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A computer network closely modeled on part of the human brain is enabling new insights into the way our brains process moving images—and explains some perplexing optical illusions.
Feb 25, 2021
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A color illusion that strongly induces color contrast effect has been found by a research team at the Toyohashi University of Technology Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary ...
Feb 10, 2021
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By exposing larval zebrafish to a well-known optical illusion, researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology and National Institute of Genetics in Japan have found a clever way to isolate key clusters of neurons ...
Oct 15, 2020
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Our sense of who we are is thought to be influenced by things like our childhood experiences, our interactions with others, and now, researchers say, our bodies. A study appearing August 26 in the journal iScience shows that, ...
Aug 26, 2020
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Why people perceive motion in some static images has mystified not only those who view these optical illusions but neuroscientists who have tried to explain the phenomenon. Now Yale neuroscientists have found some answers ...
Aug 24, 2020
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A popular theory in neuroscience called predictive coding proposes that the brain produces all the time expectations that are compared with incoming information. Errors arising from differences between actual input and prediction ...
May 12, 2020
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A world-famous psychological experiment used to help explain the brain's understanding of the body, as well as scores of clinical disorders, has been dismissed as not fit-for-purpose in a new academic paper from the University ...
Apr 10, 2020
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An auditory illusion thought to synchronize brain waves and alter mood is no more effective than other sounds, according to research in adults recently published in eNeuro. The effect reported in other studies might be a ...
Feb 17, 2020
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The famous, but bizarre, 'rubber hand illusion' could help people who suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder overcome their condition without the often unbearable stress of exposure therapy, suggests new research.
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