Sentence examples for induce the illusion from inspiring English sources

Professor Karmel, who looked at online photographs of the buildings, compared the Caledonia to "the nature preserves of Costa Rica" and said the fireplace of the Platinum "may induce the illusion that you are camping on an Icelandic glacier".

Ma and Hommel adopted the standard synchronization technique to induce the illusion of ownership and replaced the falling of a virtual with a knife.

Petkova and Ehrsson [6] showed how to induce the illusion of body ownership of a manikin seen to replace the subject's body from a first person perspective.

The setup was, therefore, able to powerfully induce the illusion that there was an arm pointing straight ahead, which appeared to be attached to the participant's body.

Synchronous stroking of the seen fake hand and one's own unseen (real) hand can induce the illusion that the fake hand 'feels like it's my hand' (illusory ownership or self-attribution [10], [11], [13]).

Research over the past decade in cognitive neuroscience has demonstrated that it is quite straightforward to experimentally induce the illusion in people that their bodies have suddenly changed in various ways.

The author proposes that Beethoven's sublime final compositions, like the "Ode to Joy" of the Ninth Symphony, or the serenely shocking golds and blues of van Gogh's last paintings, may owe something to Treponema pallidum, the syphilis bacterium, which affects the central nervous system like a psychoactive drug and induces the illusion of great light.

Inside, the combination of industrial brick, wildflowers and formal tableware on bare wood tables — all in a small space capped by a lofty ceiling — induced the illusion that one was either in the Irish countryside or at a hip place in Brooklyn.

But in that study, they induced the illusion using expensive video equipment; the new work shows that feeling like your fingers are being stretched can be done much more simply.

Similarly, if the subject is touching both sides of the waist with his hands, and both elbows are stimulated to generate the illusion that the forearms are opening, this induces the illusion that the body is widening, becoming fatter [15], [16].

We exploited the established somatotopy of the primary sensory cortex in humans and used fMRI to examine signals in the sensory cortex corresponding to the location of the wrist, elbow, or intervening forearm while people were stimulated in a fashion that induced the illusion.