Magic and the brain: Teller reveals the neuroscience of illusion – Jonah Lehrer, Wired, Apr 2009
“People take reality for granted,” Teller says shortly before stepping onstage. “Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn’t mean it is simple.”
The Neuroscience of Illusion – Susanna Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik, May 2008
When we experience a visual illusion, we may see something that is not there, or fail to see something that is there, or even see something different from what is there. Because of this disconnect between perception and reality, visual illusions demonstrate the ways in which the brain can fail to recreate the physical world.
The shrinking head illusion – David Weinberger, Apr 2008
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