Optical Illusion - Motion silences awareness of hue changes

The dots appear to stop changing when in motion.

Instructions: Keep your eyes fixed on the small white mark in the center. At first, the ring is stationary and it's easy to tell that the dots are changing. A few seconds later, the ring begins to rotate and the dots suddenly appear to stop changing.

But play the movie again, this time looking directly at one of the dots and following it as the ring rotates. You will see that, in fact, the dots had been changing the whole time, even during the rotation—you just didn't notice it. This failure to detect that moving objects are changing is silencing.
GeeSussFreeKsays...

>> ^wolfie:

maybe im just more observant, but i could still see them changing, just not as rapidly.


And that is the trick because they are changing just as rapidly...which freaks me out. Try just looking at one and you will notice the rate doesn't change.

wolfiesays...

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

>> ^wolfie:
maybe im just more observant, but i could still see them changing, just not as rapidly.

And that is the trick because they are changing just as rapidly...which freaks me out. Try just looking at one and you will notice the rate doesn't change.


always remember, optical illusions don't work the same for everyone some people's brains process what they see differently.

GeeSussFreeKsays...

>> ^wolfie:

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
>> ^wolfie:
maybe im just more observant, but i could still see them changing, just not as rapidly.

And that is the trick because they are changing just as rapidly...which freaks me out. Try just looking at one and you will notice the rate doesn't change.

always remember, optical illusions don't work the same for everyone some people's brains process what they see differently.


Right, I get that. But you were basically saying what the illusion was like you didn't see an illusion at all. The whole point was that you see them shifting color, but slower...even though the change hasn't slowed

jonnysays...

>> ^gwiz665:

@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/jonny" title="member since July 10th, 2007" class="profilelink">jonny Doesn't this belong in the brain channel? Sensory perception is a part of the brain after all?
science anatomy


No - I intended the brain channel to be a collection of videos that describe how minds and brains work. It's not intended for videos that show brains working. Honestly - I've just about given up trying to enforce this, because it seems no one can be bothered to read the channel description.

I don't see how it belongs in Anatomy either, but I'll let peggedbea be the judge of that.

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