Fun brain teaser for the weekend: What do you see?

What do you see first, ani­mals or peo­ple? And, if you try hard, and try dif­fer­ent … can you see both ani­mals AND peo­ple? :-)   For more visu­al illu­sions and brain teasers: Test your Brain with these 10 Visu­al Illu­sions Test your stress lev­el Top Brain Teasers, Games and Illu­sions, for Teens and Adults of…

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What do you see first, animals or people?

___ Try hard, try dif­fer­ent, and you’ll see both :-) For more visu­al illu­sions and brain teasers: Test your Brain with these 10 Visu­al Illu­sions Test your stress lev­el Top Brain Teasers, Games and Illu­sions, for Teens and Adults of Any Age For more about Dr. Lieber­man’s work: Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect 

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Fun visual illusion: what do you see?

Glossy Legs Leave Inter­net Agog (Sci­en­tif­ic Amer­i­can): “…A young artist has post­ed a pic­ture of their legs, which are impos­si­bly encased in shiny shrink-wrapped plas­tic. Or are they? The more you look at it, the more like­ly you will real­ize that the shell is not plas­tic, but rather bare skin with a few streaks of…

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The Hermann grid optical illusion, explained

In this image, do you see some­thing oth­er than black and white? Does it mat­ter if you look direct­ly at one of the black blocks, vs. at one of the inter­sec­tions? While there are real­ly only black blocks and white spaces in the grid, the high con­trast black and white areas fool the eyes into per­ceiv­ing a gray…

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Brain Games and Optical Illusions @ National Geographic

Sev­er­al Sharp­Brains friends rec­om­mend the recent 3‑part Nation­al Geo­graph­ic TV mini-series Brain Games focused on Per­cep­tion, Atten­tion and Mem­o­ry. You can learn about the series and exper­i­ment a good num­ber of visu­al illu­sions Here. You may also enjoy this arti­cle on Visu­al Illu­sions in Art and Sci­ence, and these clas­sic illu­sions from our own brain…

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