Adaptive value of positive illusions: coping with adversity and improving relationships [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThe concept of positive illusions is rooted in positive psychology, and is essential for maintaining individual physical and mental health. This study primarily discusses the adaptive value of positive illusions from two perspectives: adversity response ...
Hongyan Chen
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Too Bright to Focus? Influence of Brightness Illusions and Ambient Light Levels on the Dynamics of Ocular Accommodation [PDF]
VisionCan brightness illusions modulate ocular accommodation? Previous studies have shown that brightness illusions can influence pupil size as if caused by actual luminance increases.
Antonio Rodán +5 more
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Broadband, Wide‐Angle, and Versatile Metasurface Illusions with Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging [PDF]
Advanced ScienceGeneration of controllable illusions has raised widespread interest. Over the past few decades, this field has been revolutionized by the emergence of metamaterials and metasurfaces.
Haoran Li +12 more
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Deep‐learning models of the ascending proprioceptive pathway are subject to illusions [PDF]
Experimental PhysiologyProprioception is essential for perception and action. Like any other sense, proprioception is also subject to illusions. In this study, we model classic proprioceptive illusions in which tendon vibrations lead to biases in estimating the state of the ...
Adriana Perez Rotondo +5 more
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Influence of duration and visual feedback on the perception of tactile illusions of motion [PDF]
Scientific ReportsTactile illusions manifest when the perceived sensation does not align with the actual tactile stimulation. Phantom motion and cutaneous rabbit are two illusions that convey motion and direction information using only a pair of actuators, which results ...
Byron Remache-Vinueza +2 more
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Playing with the Mind: Magic Tricks in Late Medieval Europe
Open Library of Humanities, 2023 Late medieval manuscript recipe collections frequently record recipes for amusing effects, which this article terms as ‘magic tricks’. Using a source base of 100 largely unstudied manuscript recipe collections, I demonstrate in this paper that these ...
Vanessa da Silva Baptista
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Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021 Errors in radiologic interpretation are largely the result of failures of perception. This remains true despite the increasing use of computer-aided detection and diagnosis.
Robert G. Alexander +12 more
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Illusion as a Cognitive Clash Rooted in Perception
Journal of Intelligence, 2023 Illusions are important ‘tools’ in the study of perceptual processes. Their conception is typically linked to the notion of veridicality in a dual-world framework, in which we either see the macro physical world as it is (ecological approaches) or we ...
Daniele Zavagno
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The role of local framework luminance range in the simultaneous lightness contrast illusion with double increments [PDF]
Psihologija, 2015 In double increment Simultaneous Lightness Contrast two equiluminant squares rest on darker backgrounds that differ in luminance. Research on such displays has produced conflicting results as to whether an illusion is observed.
Economou Elias
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The Ministering Critic: Kierkegaard’s Theology of Communication
Religions, 2020 This paper analyzes Kierkegaard’s scattered writings on communication to foreground the distinctively theological dimension of Kierkegaard’s rhetorical theory.
Russell Johnson
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