Pareidolia is the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern (Merriam-Webster) This one minute film uses pareidolia as a tool to convey the importance... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 month 2 weeks ago • 230 views • 1:01

Only some people can see this image or understand this sentence!

posted by newtboy 1 year 10 months 3 weeks ago • 480 views • 6:30

YouTube description: Even though you can see purple, there's no purple light. This also explains why we can use a colour wheel when the electromagnetic spectrum is linear. (H/T @eric3579)... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 week ago • 897 views • 4:52

*updated, I posted the wrong video After finding out his father, Alfred, suffered from shell shock, Patrick Stewart meet Robert Bieber to find out more about the effects of shell shock and how it was... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 1,625 views • 3:15

YouTube: How the brain works, how we learn, and why we sometimes make stupid mistakes.

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 764 views • 12:10

We are going to be explaining 12 cognitive biases in this video and presenting them in a format that you can easily understand to help you make better decision in your life. Cognitive biases are flaws... continue reading

posted by enoch 7 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 320 views • 10:09

All of us have seen a world map at some point in our lives before, but it is very difficult to imagine how certain countries and parts of the world compare to each other in size that are far apart. In... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 7 years 8 months 1 week ago • 1,620 views • 6:20

This video explores the nature of self-perception and various illusions related to body ownership. - YT

posted by blacklotus90 7 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 162 views • 9:16

YouTube description: This week we answer skeptics like Descartes with empiricism. Hank explains John Locke’s primary and secondary qualities and why George Berkeley doesn’t think that distinction... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 1 month 1 week ago • 147 views • 9:52

YouTube: What is the specious present? And how do our brains perceive time?

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 2 months ago • 63 views • 7:53

I hate needles!

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 6 months 1 week ago • 505 views • 3:27

... ever again! It's all in the brain.

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 1,985 views • 10:33

..And this time it's P for Perception! YT: Following total atomic annihilation, the rebuilding of this great nation of ours may fall to you. That’s why Vault-Tec has prepared this educational video... continue reading

posted by Zawash 8 years 7 months 1 week ago • 486 views • 2:36

The human visual system is extremely complex, but it makes repeated use of some tricks that can be exploited to produce interesting visual illusions. With even a high-level understanding of how the brain... continue reading

posted by cricket 8 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 1,207 views • 4:56

I thought I saw Jerry Garcia in my granola this morning. YouTube: Why do people supposedly see a woman in pictures sent from Mars by the Curiosity Rover? For the same reason that people see Pepe the... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 8 months 1 week ago • 208 views • 4:45

Say what? YouTube: How can just two rules of Einstein's 1905 theory of special relativity lead to seemingly paradoxical changes in the perception of time?

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 3 weeks ago • 607 views • 5:46

There's something to be said for polite society.

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 5 months ago • 826 views • 9:26

YouTube Description: So what does perception even mean? What's the difference between seeing something and making sense of it? In today's episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank gives us some insight... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 1 month 1 week ago • 205 views • 10:00

You can DO IT! YouTube Description: Hank explains why EVERYONE is capable of hallucinating

posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 2 months 1 week ago • 82 views • 9:09

“Now this is a very, very important point — to realize that the world is not an illusion, that the world simply happens to be an abstraction. Out of the process, please remember we are interested in... continue reading

posted by Trancecoach 1 decade 3 months 2 weeks ago • 72 views • 3:05