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Thermal illusions for thermal displays: a review

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2023
Thermal illusions, a subset of haptic illusions, have historically faced technical challenges and limited exploration. They have been underutilized in prior studies related to thermal displays.
Subhankar Karmakar   +2 more
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Adaptive value of positive illusions: coping with adversity and improving relationships [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
The 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Using illusions to understand hallucinations: differences in perceptual performances on illusory figures may underscore specific visuoperceptual impairments in Parkinson’s disease

open access: yesFrontiers in Neuroscience, 2023
Visual hallucinations are prevalent, potentially disabling symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease. Multiple impairments in bottom-up sensory processing and top-down perceptual modulation are implicated in the pathophysiology of these phenomena.
Alberto Cucca   +14 more
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The Nature of Illusions: A New Synthesis Based on Verifiability

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022
This overview discusses the nature of perceptual illusions with particular reference to the theory that illusions represent the operation of a sensory code for which there is no meaningful ground truth against which the illusory percepts can be compared,
Christopher W. Tyler   +1 more
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Sensitivity of Visual System in 5-Day “Dry” Immersion With High-Frequency Electromyostimulation

open access: yesFrontiers in Neural Circuits, 2021
The aim of this work was to study the sensitivity of the visual system in 5-day “dry” immersion with a course of high-frequency electromyostimulation (HFEMS) and without it. “Dry” immersion (DI) is one of the most effective models of microgravity.
Irina Shoshina   +4 more
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The Ministering Critic: Kierkegaard’s Theology of Communication

open access: yesReligions, 2020
This paper analyzes Kierkegaard’s scattered writings on communication to foreground the distinctively theological dimension of Kierkegaard’s rhetorical theory.
Russell Johnson
doaj   +1 more source

Constancies and illusions in visual perception [PDF]

open access: yesPsihologija, 2002
This paper presents a systematic exposition of the general structure of visual constancies and illusions, including the introduction of a number of conceptual distinctions, illustrated by many examples.
Todorović Dejan M.
doaj   +1 more source

The ⊥-Illusion Is Not a T-Illusion [PDF]

open access: yesSymmetry, 2020
Variants of the capital Latin letter T were prepared with the straight strokes replaced by J-, C-, or S-curves, mimicking handwritten Ts. These were used to test the hypothesis that the overestimation of the length of the T’s undivided line, relative to the length of its divided line may be understood as an adaptation to a corresponding letter schema ...
openaire   +1 more source

French Lao and their transnational humanitarian activities in Laos: between illusions and disillusionment

open access: yesRevue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, 2020
The studies on overseas Lao who left Laos after the 1975 political events have generally focused on these migrants’ social incorporation in their receiving countries and on the dynamics of their intergenerational transmission.
Isabelle Wilhelm
doaj   +1 more source

Illusion as a Cognitive Clash Rooted in Perception

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

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