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Why We See Illusions…In Four Slides
Click on each slide to see it in higher resolution. Mark Changizi is a professor of cognitive science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the author of The Vision Revolution (Benbella Books). For...
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How Wide Receivers Catch With Their Eyes Closed
It’s nearing the end of American football season, with the Super Bowl fast approaching. These games involve displays of tremendous strength, agility and heart. What you may not have known is that some...
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The Vision Revolution on The Beautiful Brain: An Online Magazine
Noah Hutton’s online magazine Beautiful Brain burst onto the scene over the last year, filled with reporting and pieces about the intersection of the neuroscience and the arts. He recently interviewed...
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Why Does Light Make Headaches Worse?
Migraine sufferers have long complained about how their headaches worsen with bright light, and in case you ever doubted their complaints, Rami Burstein and other researchers from Harvard Medical...
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Interviewed at N e u r o n a r r a t i v e
David DiSalvo is a science writer for places like Scientific American, with his own Brainspin column at the True/Slant Network, and another column he calls Neuronarrative. He recently interviewed me...
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Eye Computer: Turning Vision Into A Programmable Computer
Our everyday visual perceptions rely upon unfathomably complex computations carried out by tens of billions of neurons across over half our cortex. In spite of this, it does not “feel” like work to...
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Why We See Illusions: EarthSky Interview, Part II (see 4 min in)
Why do we see illusions? I talk about it with Jorge Salazar at EarthSky. See the podcast, at about 4 minutes in. ~~ Mark Changizi is Professor of Human Cognition at 2AI, and the author of The Vision...
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Levels of Real World Wizardry: A Review of the Invisible Gorilla by Chris...
In the world of Harry Potter the one thing you don’t want to be is a “muggle”. Muggles are the regular folk lacking magical powers, and discrimination and prejudice against them is rampant. Muggles...
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The Visual Nerd In You Understands Curved Space
You’ve heard that space is curved – that’s gravity. You’ve also been told that you cannot really understand curved space. Sure, you can come to know curvy mathematics by studying general relativity or...
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“Why we see illusions” at TED
I spoke at TED in NYC in December of 2012 on my grand unified theory of illusions. For more information, see my earlier book, The Vision Revolution. (For those with a strong stomach, see this journal...
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