Illusions - Research News and Information

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Attention and awareness in stage magic: turning tricks into research.

30 Oct 2008 Just as vision scientists study visual art and illusions to elucidate the workings of the visual system, so too can cognitive scientists study cognitive illusions to elucidate the underpinnings of cognition. Magic shows are a manifestation of ... Read more...

Lacking control increases illusory pattern perception.

Oct 2008 We present six experiments that tested whether lacking control increases illusory pattern perception, which we define as the identification of a coherent and meaningful interrelationship among a set of random or unrelated stimuli. Participants who ... Read more...

Psychologically induced cooling of a specific body part caused by the illusory ownership of an artificial counterpart.

23 Aug 2008 The sense of body ownership represents a fundamental aspect of our self-awareness, but is disrupted in many neurological, psychiatric, and psychological conditions that are also characterized by disruption of skin temperature regulation, sometimes ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Illusions'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Attention and awareness in stage magic: turning tricks into research. 30 Oct 2008
• Lacking control increases illusory pattern perception. Oct 2008
• Saccadic eye movements illuminate chronometry of perceptual localization. 8 Sep 2008
• Psychologically induced cooling of a specific body part caused by the illusory ownership of an artificial counterpart. 23 Aug 2008
• Towards a science of magic. 3 Aug 2008
• [Are positive illusions adaptive?: self- and other-rating] 30 Jul 2008
• Illusory motion reversals from unambiguous motion with visual, proprioceptive, and tactile stimuli. 7 Jul 2008
• Transcranial Doppler ultrasound during galvanic labyrinth polarization depicts central vestibular processing, demonstrating bilateral vestibular projection. 29 Jun 2008
• Retinal curvature and geometry of image formation. 3 Jun 2008
• Aging and the revelation effect. 30 May 2008
• [Visual illusion of a vertical gradient: A pitched visual environment and a pitched floor] 30 May 2008
• Effect of stimulus hemifield on free-field auditory saltation. 11 May 2008
• A new psychophysical estimation of the receptive field size. 4 May 2008
• Illusion of pain: pre-existing knowledge determines brain activation of 'imagined allodynia'. 30 Apr 2008
• Mirror, mirror on the wall: the interface between illusion and reality in aesthetic surgery. 29 Apr 2008
• Stereotypes and retrieval-provoked illusory source recollections. 29 Apr 2008
• Illusion of control and behavioral control attempts in obsessive-compulsive disorder. 29 Apr 2008
• Selective visual responses to expansion and rotation in the human MT complex revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging adaptation. 29 Apr 2008
• The phenomenal dissociation between coloration and object-hole effects in the watercolor illusion. 29 Apr 2008
• Blind saccades: an asynchrony between seeing and looking. 21 Apr 2008

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Technical information about 'Illusions'

Definition: The misinterpretation of a real external, sensory experience.

Descriptor UI: D007088

Alternative terms: Illusions; Illusion; Autokinetic Illusions; Autokinetic Illusion; Illusion, Autokinetic; Illusions, Autokinetic; Illusions, Visual; Illusion, Visual; Visual Illusion; Visual Illusions; Illusions, Kinesthetic; Illusion, Kinesthetic; Kinesthetic Illusion; Kinesthetic Illusions; Illusions, Tactile; Illusion, Tactile; Tactile Illusion; Tactile Illusions; Autokinetic Effect; Effect, Autokinetic; Autokinetic Effects; Effects, Autokinetic; Illusions, Auditory; Auditory Illusion; Auditory Illusions; Illusion, Auditory;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; etiology; genetics; history; physiology; psychology; radiation effects;

Tree Number: C10.597.606.762.400; C23.888.592.604.764.400; F01.700.750.400; F02.463.593.446;

History Note: 1963

Technical Notes: do not confuse with DELUSIONS