How the mind tricks us: visualizations and visual illusions

Presentation Date: 

Monday, June 25, 2007

Location: 

Course on Frontier Developments in Optics and Spectroscopy, Centro Ettore Majorana (Erice, Italy)

Presentation Slides: 

Neurobiology and cognitive psychology have made great progress in understanding how the mind processes information – in particular visual information. The knowledge we can gain from these fields has important implications for the presentation of visual information and student learning