MetaFilter posts tagged with Neuroscience and Illusion

The Body Swap Illusion

homunculus — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:18:25 -0800

If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping. Expanding on previous experiments, researchers discover how to induce a "body-swap" illusion, whereby subjects perceive the body of another as if it were their own.

homunculus — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:45:20 -0800

nthdegx — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:32:33 -0800

See For Yourself - Purves Lab's optical illusions web page with empirical explanations of familiar and unfamiliar illusions.

homunculus — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:31:50 -0800

Virtual Out-of-Body Experience. Using two procedures to deliberately scramble a person's visual and tactile senses, neuroscientists are able to induce "out-of-body" experiences in people. The effect is the same as the 'rubber hand illusion', but extends the effect to the whole body instead of just one limb (you can try the hand illusion for yourself).

jeremy — Fri, 21 May 2004 12:30:05 -0800

Red and green dots have never been so interesting. At least to a geek like me. I love it when my brain plays tricks on me.

srboisvert — Sun, 21 Mar 2004 09:33:46 -0800