Sentence examples for illusory patterns from inspiring English sources

Almost as distracting are the illusory patterns spun so readily by wishful human minds: the canals, pyramids and giant happy face some earthlings see in images of Mars.

A complete reference list to the source and original illusory patterns given in Table 1 is also provided in "Appendix" (Table 2).

Whitson says she now plans to follow up to see if the perception of illusory patterns actually contributes to poor decisions.

We can perhaps see the brain's ability to "spot" illusory patterns in the response to the Ebola epidemic – such as the emergence of folk remedies (including the belief that drinking salt water is a cure), fears in the West that it will spread through air travel, and theories that it was created by industrialised governments.

But when these subjects first did a self-affirmation exercise that asked them to reflect on an aspect of their lives they considered to be important, such as helping other people or pursuing political influence, they were no more likely than subjects in the in-control group to see illusory patterns.

The illusory perception of these patterns is connected to the figure and ground perception, and in particular, in the Bulge patterns, grouping of dots together creates an illusory figure shape, on top of a textured background (here a checkerboard can be also a grid).

The final perception in these patterns arises from the interaction of foreground superimposed dots (illusory figure of grouped dots) and the background elements of checkerboard tiles.

In the "phosphene region" condition the stimuli were placed at the same screen location where the subjects had previously seen and drawn a phosphene (an illusory light pattern) upon application of supra-threshold intensity TMS over the same cortical site.

Not only is the cyclic pattern illusory, but also the increase in services is artifactual.

I hope I find them when I need to remember that normalcy, routines, and patterns are illusory and idolatrous because God is actually in charge.

A migraine hypothesis was formulated for Picasso's art, based on aura-like patterns, such as illusory vertical splitting and shifts of the eyes, even if the authors explicitly stated that they did not find any supportive information in Picasso's biographies [1].