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. ...

One account of word learning suggests that children learn that words are unique as labels among perceptual signals because of the way they tend to systematically co-occur with categories of objects. Twenty-month-old’s use of mutual exclusivity with different types of labels emanating from different sources was investigated in order to evaluate this account. Specifically, words and animal sounds...

For decades, theories of early word learning have assumed that infants are equipped with learning biases that help them learn words at a fast pace. One of these biases, called Mutual Exclusivity, suggests that infants reject second labels for name-known objects. Our first two experiments, with children and with infants, suggest that novelty preference during Mutual Exclusivity tasks should not ...

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...

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...

t his paper discusses firstly the logical possibility of seeing god and secondly discusses the occurrence of that in this world. the reasons for and against the possibility and also the occurrence of this seeing are studied in details and criticized. the author finally proposed his arguments for rejecting the possibility and occurrence of seeing god.

The increasing observation of mutual exclusivity correlations among cancer gene mutations is a key component for identifying driver events or pathways in cancer genome analysis. Here we report a rigorous statistical method to compute an exact p-value for the beyond-pairwise mutual exclusivity or co-occurrence relationships among cancer gene mutations by enumerating a null distribution of overla...

Repayment versus Investment Conditions and Exclusivity in Lending Contracts Lenders condition future loans on some index of past performance. Typically, banks condition future loans on repayments of earlier obligations whilst international organizations (official lenders) condition future loans on the implementation of some policy action (‘investment’). We build an agency model that accounts fo...