optical
Now You See It, Now You Don't
The Explorers spent some time in March discovering that maybe your eyes don’t lie—but under certain conditions they can conspire with your brain to fool you.
Perception...or Deception?
The Explorers spent a session investigating the wonder of the sense of vision, including how our eyes and brain work together to produce images—and how under certain conditions they can be fooled into seeing something that isn’t really there at all.
Tags: 2010 - 2011 school year, afterimage, blind spot, brain, color, cones, eye, illusion, optic nerve, optical, optical illusion, rods, sight, vision
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