{"id":206518,"date":"2025-02-15T06:11:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T12:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/eye-told-you-so-why-illusions-are-all-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder"},"modified":"2025-02-15T06:11:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T12:11:39","slug":"eye-told-you-so-why-illusions-are-all-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/eye-told-you-so-why-illusions-are-all-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder","title":{"rendered":"Eye told you so: Why illusions are all in the eye of the beholder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/eye-told-you-so-why-illusions-are-all-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our brain and eyes can play tricks on us\u2014not least when it comes to the expanding hole illusion. A new computational model developed by Flinders University experts helps to explain how cells in the human retina make us \u201csee\u201d the dark central region of a black hole graphic expand outwards.<\/p>\n<p>In a new <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2501.08625\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> posted to the <i>arXiv<\/i> preprint server, the Flinders University experts highlight the role of the eye\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/retinal+ganglion+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">retinal ganglion cells<\/a> in processing contrast and motion perception\u2014and how messages from the cerebral cortex then give the beholder an impression of a moving or \u201cexpanding hole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVisual illusions provide valuable insights into the mechanisms of human vision, revealing how the brain interprets complex stimuli,\u201d says Dr. Nasim Nematzadeh, from the College of Science and Engineering at Flinders University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our brain and eyes can play tricks on us\u2014not least when it comes to the expanding hole illusion. A new computational model developed by Flinders University experts helps to explain how cells in the human retina make us \u201csee\u201d the dark central region of a black hole graphic expand outwards. In a new article posted [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,33,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cosmology","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}