I have always been fascinated with quilts. The geometric patterns and vibrant colors of quilt tops remind me of the view through a kaleidoscope (Figure 1). As a quilter, I now realize that visually appealing optical illusions result from the balance of the colors, tones, and designs of fabrics within the quilt, and selecting and combining fabrics for a quilt is an art form itself. I find the bo...

The proposition recently offered by S. E. Taylor and J. D. Brown (1988) that positive illusions foster mental health has garnered considerable attention and acceptance. However, the significant theoretical and applied implications of their view for mental health require a critical evaluation of their argument. An examination of the logic and empirical evidence used to relate mental health to th...

"Intentional binding" refers to the finding that people judge voluntary actions and their effects as having occurred closer together in time than two passively observed events. If this effect reflects subjectively compressed time, then time-dependent visual illusions should be altered by voluntary initiation. To test this hypothesis, we showed participants displays that result in particular mot...

Visual illusions emerge as an attractive field of research with the discovery over the last century of a variety of deep and mysterious mechanisms of visual information processing in the human visual system. Among many classes of visual illusion relating to shape, brightness, colour and motion, “geometrical illusions” are essentially based on the misperception of orientation, size, and position...

Abstract Human decision-making is relevant for concept formation and cognitive illusions. Cognitive illusions can be explained by quantum probability, while the reason introducing mechanics based on ad hoc bounded rationality (BR). Concept in a set-theoretic way, although such explanations have not been extended to We naturally expand idea of BR incomplete introduce key notion nonlocality cogni...

Reasoners succumb to predictable illusions in evaluating whether sets of assertions are consistent. We report two studies of this computationally intractable task of "satisfiability." The results show that as the number of possibilities compatible with the assertions increases, the difficulty of the task increases, and that reasoners represent what is true according to assertions, not what is f...

The purpose of this paper is to present a unique exhibit design approach that is capable of contributing to the conservation of endangered primates. The approach recognizes the need to link the animal’s plight to its environmental context, including its natural habitat and the cultural and economic influences of man. The basis of the design recommendations was generated by an analysis of the de...

Mirrors have been studied by cognitive psychology in order to understand self-recognition, self-identity, and self-consciousness. Moreover, the relevance of mirrors in spirituality, magic and arts may also suggest that mirrors can be symbols of unconscious contents. Carl G. Jung investigated mirrors in relation to the unconscious, particularly in Psychology and Alchemy. However, the relationshi...