Moon illusions redescribed

Radianthus papillosa ( Coelenterata , Actiniaria ) Redescribed from Hawaii

The shallow water sea anemone that was described by Verrill (1928) as Macranthea cookei from specimens collected in Hawaii is redescribed and synonymized with Radianthus pqpillosa, first described by Kwietniewski (1898) as Stichodactis papillosa from Ambon. sand flats on Moku 0 Loe (Coconut Island), Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, were studied alive and in preserved condition. To ascertain that the species ...

Overdistribution Illusions

Overdistribution is a form of memory distortion in which an event is remembered as belonging to too many episodic states, states that are logically or empirically incompatible with each other. We investigated a response formatting method of suppressing 2 basic types of overdistribution, disjunction and conjunction illusions, which parallel some classic illusions in the judgment and decision mak...

Auditory Illusions

Memory Illusions

Memory illusions may be defined as cases in which a rememberer’s report of a past event seriously deviates from the event’s actual occurrence. This article introduces the special issue of the Journal of Memory and Language that is devoted to memory illusions by grounding their study in the context of perceptual illusions. Perceptual illusions have been investigated since the 1850s, whereas memo...

Dissolving Illusions

Immunity from such infections may be natural or may be acquired. By natural immunity we understand a natural resistance to infection by certain micro-organisms which are known to have pathogenic properties for other species of animals. It is know, for instance, that microbes which produce a rapidly fatal disease in one kind of animal are quite innocuous when introduced even in enormous numbers ...