Posts Tagged ‘optical-illusions’
Ten resources, brain teasers and illusions to celebrate Brain Awareness Week 2023
We invite you to celebrate Brain Awareness Week (March 13–19th, 2023) by learning more about that key yet often-overlooked organ and by putting it to good use via some fun brain teasers and illusions :-) Can you connect these pairs of words? Try these quick teasers to challenge your working memory Three classic optical illusions, explained Test…
Read MoreIf you’re a fruit fly, tease your mind with this optical illusion. Humans welcome too.
Please move your gaze around the image, resting from time to time. Then, fix your gaze at a point, and see what happens. You will probably first see ‘snakes’ rotating, some clockwise, others anticlockwise, and then stop.
Read MoreUpdate: 200 common prescription medications increase depression risk
___ Dear reader, Time for SharpBrains e‑newsletter. It’s been a busy month, once again bringing to the forefront the limitations of our current healthcare system and, on the positive side, the growing opportunities to improve Brain Health and Mental Health for all, if we pay attention to (and act on) latest research, thinking and tools. New…
Read MoreIs your brain ready for Monday? Tease your mind with these four optical illusions
___ A great way to learn more about our brains and minds is to look at how we can trick them–that is, to see how we react to brain teasers and visual illusions. Below are four fun optical illusions that let us learn about our visual system…ready? (answers and explanations at the bottom) ___
Read MoreTest your brain and mind with these nine classic optical Illusions
Are the two orange circles of the same size? One way to learn more about our brains and minds is to look at how we can trick them–that is, to see how we react to brain teasers and visual illusions. The brain has two hemispheres, each divided into four lobes. Each lobe is (largely) responsible for different functions.…
Read MoreVisual illusions to tease our brains and minds
Why Optical Illusions Like These Make Your Brain Go Haywire (Wired): “University of Bristol researchers discovered this illusion in the early 1970s while looking at the tiled wall of a café. Hence the name, Café Wall Illusion. The gray lines in between the rows of white and black squares seem to converge, but they are…
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