April 01, 2005
Fixate the green dot for a while and watch the others disappear. Actually they don't disappear. Nice visual illusion, used in neuroscientific conscioussnes research - the background motion somehow interfers with the percept of the dots. What's reality anyways?
I love things like this. Thanks.
Groovy -- but the bottom one never goes away for me. What's wrong with my eyes!? (Gouges out same)
monkeyfilter: what's reality anyways?
It doesn't work if you set the yellow dots to about two inches in diameter.
Just sayin'
If that doesn't make you dizzy enough, here's some other's to tantalize your senses
This is pretty cool!
"Your honour, I didn't see the red light on account of motion induced neurological thingamajiggy. It's not my fault!"
OMG, I work in visual cognition.
For an open house last month, we replicated a room-sized demo of this effect, inducing people standing against a wall to disappear.
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