Al Seckel: How Our Brains are Miswired
Illusions, when they have equivalent and predictable effects on the vast majority of people, can tell us much about the arcane wiring of our brains. Al Seckel, world-renknowned cognitive neuroscientist and illusion specialist, surprised and delighted a crowd at TED in 2004 by subjecting them to phantoms of perception they couldn’t avoid, even when they knew the tricks ahead of time.
As one commenter put it, this talk is all about “how perception is deceived and how our deception is perceived.”
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