Sentence examples for common illusions from inspiring English sources

In the current issue of the journal Cognitive Science, researchers at the California Institute of Technology and the University of Sussex argue that the brain's adaptive ability to see into the near future creates many common illusions.

However, on its own, it is unable to account for the common illusions of temporal perception described above, and support for a direct neural implementation of this model is diminishing.

He seemed to touch on a common illusion: that putting a gun in one's hand brings clarity.

Then, in what is a common illusion, the hand can appear to have stopped, momentarily, before it moves again.

It's a common illusion, however — what Mike Konczal, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, recently described as "the voluntarism fantasy".

ThinkCreeps apparently shares a common illusion in evolutionary thinking that natural selection is all we need in the way of basic principles to understand the evolutionary process.

Americans are worse than many at overcoming common optical illusions about the length of lines.

Many common visual illusions are perceptual: they result from the brain's processing of ambiguous or unusual visual information.

Accordingly, in order to avoid suggesting any specific conscious content, for the first experiment we included a common vertical horizontal illusion in our instructions, both to illustrate what an illusion is and to distinguish illusion from inference or judgment.

Only Ned, pressing his anti-war petition on anyone with a hand to sign it, still buys Douglas's doctrine of exceptionalism, that common collegiate illusion that, post-graduation, the future will be yours to shape.

What I mean is that Sibelius has sped up the music so much that time slows down (a sort of musical version of a common optical illusion, when spinning objects seem to slow down the faster they revolve) so that the hectic crotchets of the symphony's last scherzoid music become the undulating accompanying bed of sound for the trombone's theme.