Re: Amazing illusions

From: Alex Ramonsky (alex@ramonsky.com)
Date: Mon Aug 11 2003 - 07:11:27 MDT

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    >> Continuing on the "our brains are made of mush" series, we have the
    >> McGurk effect (i suggest downloading the clip if your browser doesn't
    >> cache, because you are going to want to play it a few hundred times)
    >> http://www.media.uio.no/personer/arntm/McGurk_english.html
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    >
    > Continuing in this vein, we have:
    > http://salmon.psy.plym.ac.uk/year3/PSY339EvolutionaryPsychology/EvolutionaryPsychology.htm#beautyandasymmetry
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    > As we all know, symmetric faces are more beautiful. Here is a thing
    > that fascinates me; I can immediately see the symmetrical female face
    > as more beautiful, but I don't see any difference in handsomeness
    > between the symmetric and asymmetric male face. Having briefly
    > checked a chat channel, I find that some men also see no difference in
    > handsomeness, while others say they see the symmetric face as more
    > handsome. I wasn't able to question any women.

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