Visua l illusion is the fallacious percep ti on of rea lity or some ac t ua lly existi ng object. In t his paper , we imit at e the mechanism of Ehrenst ein illusion, neon color sp readi ng illnsion , wa te r­ color illusion, Kanizsa illusion, shifted edg es illusion , and hybrid image illusion using t he O pen Source Comput er Vision Library (OpenCV). We also im itate th ese illusions using Ce...

In psychological research, conspiracy theories are often defined as explanations of events involving the hidden action a malevolent group. Such definition raises false negative problem, it does not capture that about events. It also positive problem because categorises any conspiracy-based explanation theory, even though distinguishing from other claims is at core many attempts to define this n...

The pejorative connotation often associated with the ordinary language meaning of “conspiracy theory” does not only stem from a conspiracy theory’s being about conspiracy, but also regarded as particular kind theory. I propose to understand theory-induced polarization in terms disagreement correct epistemic evaluation ‘theory’ ‘conspiracy theory’. By framing positions typical this way, aim show...

The scintillating grid illusion refers to an illusory perception of black spots on the luminance increments at the intersections of gray grids on a black background. In this study, we examined how the shape of luminance increments modulated the strength of the illusion. In Experiment 1, we concurrently controlled the size and shape of luminance increments, and found significant reduction of the...

The hollow-face illusion, in which a mask appears as a convex face, is a powerful example of binocular depth inversion occurring with a real object under a wide range of viewing conditions. Explanations of the illusion are reviewed and six experiments reported. In experiment 1 the detrimental effect of figural inversion, evidence for the importance of familiarity, was found for other oriented o...

3 The attributes of an optical illusion Optical illusions are meant to fool the mind. However, the way in which they do this differs with every illusion. Illusions can be classified based on their two main attributes of colour and geometry. One may think that the more attributes an illusion has, the better, but using all the attributes would upset the balance, making the illusion to confusing. ...

abstract the present study attempted to experimentally analyze the effect of fiscal illusion in the form of flypaper effect on spending demand levels of provincial governments in iran. to this aim, theoretical foundations and literature review were presented, and then the model used for investigation was specified. finally, using time series data for provinces of iran during 2000-2013 estimatio...

In this paper, we report on a novel visual motion illusion. When hundreds of dots move in straight trajectories and random directions without colliding, the trajectories are perceived as wriggling rather than straight (Experiment 1). We examined the nature of this "wriggling motion trajectory illusion" via six separate experiments. The illusion was most pronounced when there were a large number...