Visual Wonders
This particular brain area allows you to recognize faces even from diverse perspectives and expressions.
What is the fusiform face area?
This phrase refers to one's ability to recognize distinct pitches and melodies.
What is pitch discrimination?
While not a true sense, this phenomena allows you to perceive a phantom limb following amputation.
What is phantom limb sensation?
This classic illusion causes parallel lines to seem to bend outward.
What is the Müller-Lyer illusion?
Our capacity to notice this illusion reveals how the brain fills in lacking information.
What is the blind spot?
According to this idea, humans experience speech by first grasping its meaning and context, and then interpreting sounds accordingly.
What is the top-down processing theory of speech perception?
This disorder, caused by damage to the olfactory bulb, affects your ability to smell.
What is anosmia?
This auditory illusion causes a single, continuous tone to appear to change in pitch.
The Shepard tone.
This color is frequently connected with danger and stop signals, yet you don't see it immediately.
What is red?
This speech sound group, which includes "m" and "p," has minimum mouth movement.
What is a bilabial consonant?
This illusion makes you perceive two stimuli presented close together as a single object.
What is the fusion illusion?
This optical illusion causes items to look further distant than they actually are.
Atmospheric perspective
This method identifies things by combining bottom-up sensory input with top-down expectations.
What is object recognition?
This phenomena explains why it is difficult to follow a single discussion when surrounded by background noise.
What is the cocktail party effect?
This multisensory integration enables you to feel the texture of a cloth while also seeing its appearance.
What is crossmodal perception?
The concept suggests that humans recognize letters by comparing them to mental templates.
What is the template matching theory?