By Daniel Simons, on May 10th, 2011
Details about a couple wonderful illusions that didn’t win this year’s Best Illusion of the Year […]
By Daniel Simons, on March 25th, 2011
When we look at the world around us, we feel that we are seeing it completely and accurately. What accounts for that […]
By Daniel Simons, on January 25th, 2011
What is the best way to study for an exam? Do you think you know? Better test […]
By Daniel Simons, on November 16th, 2010
You might think you remember how you heard about the attacks on September 11, 2001, but you might well be wrong. A reader sent a remarkable example of memory distortion for a much earlier experience which illustrates how easily memories can […]
By Daniel Simons, on October 18th, 2010
Thank you to everyone who submitted a comment or sent me email describing your own ‘invisible gorilla’ experiences. In addition to the many great comments on
By The Invisible Gorilla, on August 24th, 2010
This is so wrong that if it were April 1, I would assume it is a joke.
heads-up keyboard from Wired article
But it comes from a writer with Gizmodo, one of the best tech sites around, and it was published by Wired. Unless proven otherwise, I have to assume it’s just […]
By Daniel Simons, on May 13th, 2010
On Monday (May 10) I presented my “Monkey Business Illusion” at the Illusion of the year contest. I posted about it here on Tuesday. I’ve just finished editing together some video we shot of my presentation and uploaded it to YouTube. The contest was a blast — I hope you […]
By Daniel Simons, on May 11th, 2010
My presentation at the Illusion of the year competition was featured at Nature.com. The article discusses the contest and ends with my presentation. If you haven’t viewed my illusion yet, view it first before reading the Nature piece — the piece contains spoilers.
By Daniel Simons, on May 10th, 2010
My submission to the Best Illusion of the Year competition at this year’s Vision Sciences Society meeting is titled “The Monkey Business Illusion.” The contest judges selected it to be among the 10 finalists, so I got to present it to an audience of more than 1000 people attending the show this evening (May 10, […]
By Daniel Simons, on May 9th, 2010
This week I’m attending the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society in Naples Florida. Every day or so, I’ll post about a subset of the cool, interesting, funny, or quirky (I won’t say which) talks/posters I happened to catch. You can read the first installment here. Here’s a fun one from my […]
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