Illusion, Perception, Visual language
Here we are in the midst of another series of ‘The Apprentice’ and I bet that I wasn’t the only person that spent the first series, way back in 2005, wondering where about in Canary Wharf, Siralan’s (as he was back then) offices were? The rapid images of...
Art, Illusion, Neuroscience, Perception, Visual language
As we’ve discovered from other posts we don’t so much see as perceive. Our eyes and brain don’t function like a camera; light falling on our retina is only the beginning of a much greater mental journey. What we think we see is constructed within our brains and...
Art, Illusion, Neuroscience, Perception
As social creatures we need to recognise each other and our mind can perform some astounding feats when it comes to recognising faces. If you ever saw QI then you may have seen the splendid Einsteins face illusion which demonstrates this quite clearly. (You can watch...
