The perptual diamond: The diamond remains fixed in one place but appears to move up, down, left, or, right. See how far away you can be from your screen before the effect goes away. From https://t.co/XRFKTtjOfm
Promotion video of Journal of Illusion played in VSS 2026, created by Professor Arthur Shapiro (The background music has been replaced with AI-generated music)
The website of Journal of Illusion
https://t.co/BaKbEXPYDy
Yuki Kobayashi & Arthur G. Shapiro @AmericanU describe relationships among lightness illusions uncovered by analyses of individual differences.
https://t.co/GriUp3OgWy
@SteveStuWill Out of my usual area, but i have a recent article on #2 (desired # partners over next 30 years). Men's means are indeed way higher then women's, but the modes of both women's and men's distributions are always 1. It complicates the picture. https://t.co/v1c39O5GUI
@Noahpinion The term "conveyer-belt media" is more appropriate.
From Orwell's essay The Prevention of Literature: "... Or perhaps some kind of low grade sensational fiction will survive, produced by a sort of conveyor-belt process that reduces human initiative to the minimum."
Winston Smith Illusion: The 70th anniversary of the publication of Orwell's 1984 is perhaps a good time to remember that according to Gestalt psychology, 2+2 doesn't always equal 4. (blog post with demo: https://t.co/IWYCl0UEEk) #Orwell #1984 #1984at70#TipsForSurvivingRoom101
@charlesmurray There is a very large literature on the effects environmental enrichment on development of rat brains. Here is one review article: https://t.co/WeAl0fLhSy