What+is+an+Illusion

Visual Illusions: When You Brain Can't Believe Your Eyes So What is a Visual Illusion? Well, According to Michael Bach, visual illusion occur when there is a "mismatch between the immediate visual impression and the actual properties of the object". While not all scientist agree definitively on this definition the general consensus is that your brains and eyes don't agree on what you seeing (2006). We already know that from How Perception Works that the brain automatically attempts to make an inference about what we are actually seeing. As examined by Gregory 90% of the incoming sensory information is lost as the processes lost on What is Perception takes place (McLeod, 2007). In order to create a complete image our brain makes an inference about what is happening and occasionally this inference is wrong; creating visual illusions (McLeod, 2007). Even if you are consciously aware that you are perceiving the image improperly, for some illusions, there is nothing you can do to stop it from happening. Consider Charlie Chaplin's Visual Illusion presented in the video below. media type="youtube" key="QbKw0_v2clo" width="420" height="315" Isn't it interesting how no matter what you do, even knowing logically that the mask is hollow and nothing but the inverted image from the front exist, you still cant stop yourself from perceiving a "normal" face on its reverse. The Creation and Explanation In the video below Al Seckel demonstrates similar illusion, explains why we are unable to perceive them correctly and even how some illusions are created (2004). media type="custom" key="23280140" align="center"

Video References Seckel, A. (2004, February). // Al Seckel: Powerful Visual Illusions. // [Video File]. Retrieved from: []

// Charlie Chaplin Optic Illusion [Video file]. (n.d.). Retrieved from [] //