Archive for January 1st, 2007
A Disgusting Joke
Monday, January 1st, 2007A tour bus driver is driving with a bus load
of seniors down a highway
when he is tapped on his shoulder by a little old lady.
She offers him a handful of peanuts,
which he gratefully munches up.
After about 15 minutes, she taps him on his shoulder
again and she hands him another handful of peanuts. [...]
Optical Illusion
Monday, January 1st, 2007Perceptual organization
In order to make sense of the world it is necessary to organize incoming sensations into information which is meaningful. Gestalt psychologists believe one way this is done is by perceiving individual sensory stimuli as a meaningful whole.
Gestalt organization can be used to explain many illusions including the Duck-Rabbit illusion where the image as [...]
