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Understanding human perception by human-made illusions

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, July 2014
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Title
Understanding human perception by human-made illusions
Published in
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, July 2014
DOI 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00566
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Authors

Claus-Christian Carbon

Abstract

IT MAY BE FUN TO PERCEIVE ILLUSIONS, BUT THE UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THEY WORK IS EVEN MORE STIMULATING AND SUSTAINABLE: They can tell us where the limits and capacity of our perceptual apparatus are found-they can specify how the constraints of perception are set. Furthermore, they let us analyze the cognitive sub-processes underlying our perception. Illusions in a scientific context are not mainly created to reveal the failures of our perception or the dysfunctions of our apparatus, but instead point to the specific power of human perception. The main task of human perception is to amplify and strengthen sensory inputs to be able to perceive, orientate and act very quickly, specifically and efficiently. The present paper strengthens this line of argument, strongly put forth by perceptual pioneer Richard L. Gregory (e.g., Gregory, 2009), by discussing specific visual illusions and how they can help us to understand the magic of perception.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Colombia 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Kazakhstan 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 263 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 59 22%
Student > Master 42 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 27 10%
Researcher 18 7%
Other 12 4%
Other 37 14%
Unknown 73 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 69 26%
Neuroscience 20 7%
Computer Science 18 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 10 4%
Arts and Humanities 8 3%
Other 61 23%
Unknown 82 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 152. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 December 2023.
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#269,306
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Outputs from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
#122
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#2,166
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
#5
of 251 outputs
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