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Fixed Objects Move Before Your Eyes (New Scientist TV)

5/17/2011
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Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences Peter Tse ’84 created a new visual illusion that was a finalist in this year’s Illusion of the Year contest. The illusion uses a moving background to create a misleading perception about the location of two flashing red dots.

Read about and see a video of the illusion, which New Scientist TV published in the Friday Illusion series on 5/13/11.

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