Visualizations and visual illusions: how the mind tricks us

Presentation Date: 

Wednesday, November 9, 2005

Location: 

A Year of Physics Public Lecture, North Carolina A&T State University (Greensboro, NC)

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.