Daily Brain & Mind — Day 13 (Optical Illusion) 🧠 The…
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Daily Brain & Mind — Day 13 (Optical Illusion)
🧠 The Hollow-Face Illusion (Concave Einstein)
Walk around or rotate this 3D mask that is hollow on the back. Why does the concave hollow inside still appear to pop outward as a normal face?
💬 Even when you know it's hollow, can your brain see it as hollow? Tell us in the comments! (Solution in first comment 👇)
#brain #hollowface #einstein #neuroscience #illusion
🧠 The Hollow-Face Illusion (Concave Einstein)
Walk around or rotate this 3D mask that is hollow on the back. Why does the concave hollow inside still appear to pop outward as a normal face?
💬 Even when you know it's hollow, can your brain see it as hollow? Tell us in the comments! (Solution in first comment 👇)
#brain #hollowface #einstein #neuroscience #illusion
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💡 SCIENCE BEHIND THE ILLUSION:
Top-down visual processing is so dominant that your brain's lifetime expectation of human faces being convex (popping out) overrides physical reality, even when binocular depth cues tell you it is hollow!
Top-down visual processing is so dominant that your brain's lifetime expectation of human faces being convex (popping out) overrides physical reality, even when binocular depth cues tell you it is hollow!
