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visual perceptual illusion

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  • How does the McGurk effect trick your brain?
    In illusion: Visual perceptual illusions

    When an observer is confronted with a visual assortment of dots, the brain may group the dots that “belong together.” These groupings are made on the basis of such things as observed similarity (e.g., red versus black dots), proximity, common direction of…

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