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Seeing double: brainwaves offer scientists key to unravelling how optical illusions trick the mind
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SURREALIST paintings may never be the same again. Scientists have
deciphered the secret behind how the brain can be tricked by optical
illusions.
Psychologists at Glasgow University used advanced brain-imaging
technology to map the brainwaves of volunteers as they looked at
surreal images.
They found that the participants' brains absorbed all the
information from a painting by breaking it down into separate
"brainwaves", tiny electrical impulses in the brain.
But the researchers claim that while all the brainwaves occur at
once, the brain is only able to decode one at a time, meaning the ...
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