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From the Ted Talk by Aaron Duffy, Lake Buckley and Jack Foster: "Illusions for a better society"

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Wei Ji Ma: My name is Wei Ji Ma. I'm a professor of nseniuccoere and psychology at New York uienvstriy.

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WJM: Our raeersch focuses mostly on perception and decision-making. What's out there in the world, the brain has no idea, but it's trying to do its best to figure it out. And even though that process is pretty sistcthaeoipd, sometimes it goes wrong.

(Glass breaks)

The first step is that light eetrns your eyes. Just from the table or from the coffee cup, you get an image in your eye, but the hard work only starts after that. Very often, the incoming signals are not complete and they're not perfect, and your brain has to make sense of them. There are cases where this inference process goes wrong, and that's when you have a visual illusion.

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Narrator: We have you here today specifically to try and _____ a little bit about how the _____ processes visual _________.

Wei Ji Ma: My name is Wei Ji Ma. I'm a professor of ____________ and psychology at New York __________.

N: Great.

WJM: Our ________ focuses mostly on perception and decision-making. What's out there in the world, the brain has no idea, but it's trying to do its best to figure it out. And even though that process is pretty _____________, sometimes it goes wrong.

(Glass breaks)

The first step is that light ______ your eyes. Just from the table or from the coffee cup, you get an image in your eye, but the hard work only starts after that. Very often, the incoming signals are not complete and they're not perfect, and your brain has to make sense of them. There are cases where this inference process goes wrong, and that's when you have a visual illusion.

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  3. neuroscience
  4. illusions
  5. university
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  8. research

Original Text


Narrator: We have you here today specifically to try and learn a little bit about how the brain processes visual illusions.

Wei Ji Ma: My name is Wei Ji Ma. I'm a professor of neuroscience and psychology at New York University.

N: Great.

WJM: Our research focuses mostly on perception and decision-making. What's out there in the world, the brain has no idea, but it's trying to do its best to figure it out. And even though that process is pretty sophisticated, sometimes it goes wrong.

(Glass breaks)

The first step is that light enters your eyes. Just from the table or from the coffee cup, you get an image in your eye, but the hard work only starts after that. Very often, the incoming signals are not complete and they're not perfect, and your brain has to make sense of them. There are cases where this inference process goes wrong, and that's when you have a visual illusion.

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