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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
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Deep‐learning models of the ascending proprioceptive pathway are subject to illusions [PDF]

open access: yesExperimental Physiology
Proprioception 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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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
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Playing with the Mind: Magic Tricks in Late Medieval Europe

open access: yesOpen 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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Visual Illusions in Radiology: Untrue Perceptions in Medical Images and Their Implications for Diagnostic Accuracy

open access: yesFrontiers 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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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
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The role of local framework luminance range in the simultaneous lightness contrast illusion with double increments [PDF]

open access: yesPsihologija, 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
doaj   +1 more source

No common factor for illusory percepts, but a link between pareidolia and delusion tendency: A test of predictive coding theory

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
Predictive coding theory is an influential view of perception and cognition. It proposes that subjective experience of the sensory information results from a comparison between the sensory input and the top-down prediction about this input, the latter ...
Magdalena Lhotka   +6 more
doaj   +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
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