Scientists Create Touch-based Illusion: Mind Trick Yields New Insights On Perception

[Dover]

Scientists Create Touch-based Illusion: Mind Trick Yields New Insights On Perception
ScienceDaily (July 21, 2008) — Anyone who has seen an optical illusion can recall the quirky moment when you realize that the image being perceived is different from objective reality. Now, a team of scientists from MIT, Harvard and McGill has designed a new illusion involving the sense of touch, which is helping to glean new insights into perception and how different senses--such as touch and sight--work together....>

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080717134609.htm



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Perceptual Rivalry:
1) Stare at this for... say 2 minutes.
2) The dots will appear to jump vertically or horizontally, and then after some time, they will probably spontaneously switch directions.

(You might also be able to see them rotating clockwise or counter clock wise)

[MrSlayer]

1. I can change the pattern at will.

And could from the second I saw it. And they say LSD does you no good.

[Cronus Protagonist]

4. Yeah, clockwise, counterclockwise, up and down all easy to do

Can't see them go left to right though... perhaps I need some more acid.. lol

[Uben]

2. Three minutes, no change

I perceived no change after three minutes of staring....same pattern.

[Occulus]

3. And what does it mean if I can "make" them "change" at will, from the start?

I can even make them appear to my eye as moving around the perimeter, following one another.