Wrong By Design: Why Our Brains Are Fooled by Illusions (Photos)

Posted by phunkychic666 on June 20, 2010

Discover Magazine reports:

Neuroscientists usually explain color illusions in mechanistic terms. Beau Lotto says that misses the point: We misperceive colors and shapes because our visual sense has been molded by evolutionary history.

In the above image, all the blue dots are the same brightness.

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