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Here you’ll find everything from my past and present endeavors in research, to informational links and interesting posts about what catches my eye in the field.
My research speciality centers around Cognitive Neuroscience, and of particular interest to me are illusions, because they can tell us a lot about how our visual systems work. The perceptual illusion below (from yours truly and my PhD advisor, Dr. Jim Pomerantz) won 3rd place at the Neural Correlate Society’s 10th Annual Illusion of the Year Contest:
Explaining the illusion: When we look at two pictures that are physically the same, they usually look the same. When they are different, they look different. Our illusions show the opposite: two images that are different but look the same – those are called “metamers” – and two images that are identical but look different – we call those “anti-metamers.” Our main illusion mixes the two: it shows three images, two of which match with a third one mismatching. Viewers see one image as odd, but it’s one of the two identical images they see as different, an illusion we call “false pop out”.
Here’s me giving a more in-depth explanation of the illusion – including an explanation of how we created the illusion – with some other fun pictures and examples:
In the menus at the top of the page, you’ll find links to more of my research, my CV, and Brain Feed (my blog roll, which includes some more interesting finds in the lands of general Psychology, Cog Neuro and beyond).
Much as I do every day in my studies, I hope that here you will find something small, at the very least, that brings a little bit of wonder to your day.
Cheers, y’all!
kdoh
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Kimberley Orsten Hooge, Ph.D. 