Wednesday, November 9, 2011

What the brain sees after the eye stops looking

Link: What the brain sees after the eye stops looking

When we gaze at a shape and then the shape disappears, a strange thing happens: We see an afterimage in the complementary color. Now a Japanese study has observed for the first time an equally strange illusion: The afterimage appears in a “complementary” shape—circles as hexagons, and vice-versa.

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