{"id":944,"date":"2008-09-26T11:37:27","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T18:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/09\/shifty-eyes-fool\/"},"modified":"2008-09-26T11:38:41","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T18:38:41","slug":"shifty-eyes-fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/26\/shifty-eyes-fool\/","title":{"rendered":"Shifty Eyes Fool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/channel\/being-human\/dn14788?promcode=nletter&amp;DCMP=NLC-nletter&amp;nsref=dn14788\" target=\"_blank\">from New Scientist<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"inline\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 1.2em; display: inline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Shifty eye movements behind famous optical illusion<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"straptext notlist highlight colspacer\" style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 0.85em; color: #016798; margin-top: 5px; list-style-position: inside; list-style-image: initial; margin-bottom: 8px; list-style-type: none; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px\">\n<li style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">12:12 23 September 2008<\/li>\n<li style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">NewScientist.com news service<\/li>\n<li style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">David Robson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 8px; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px\">The cause of an optical illusion, made famous by a 1981 painting, has finally been solved.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/data\/images\/ns\/cms\/dn14788\/dn14788-1_250.jpg\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"15\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 8px; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px\">Neuroscientists have shown that the way our eyes constantly make tiny movements is responsible for the way concentric circles in Isia Leviant&#8217;s painting &#8216;Enigma&#8217; (see image, right) seem to flow before onlookers&#8217; eyes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 8px; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neuralcorrelate.com\/smc_lab\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; color: #000000; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Susana Martinez-Conde<\/a>\u00a0and her team from the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, tested whether the effect was down to tiny, involuntary jerks of the eyes, known as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microsaccade\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; color: #000000; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">microsaccades<\/a>. Their purpose is not fully understood, but the rate of these movements is known to vary naturally.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal\">In the team&#8217;s experiment, while three subjects viewed Enigma, cameras recorded their eye movements 500 times every second. The subjects were asked to press a button when the speed of the optical &#8220;trickle&#8221; of the illusion appeared to slow down or stop, and release it when the trickle seemed faster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 8px; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px\">&#8220;We can now rule out the idea that the illusion originates solely in the brain,&#8221; she told\u00a0<strong style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">New Scientist<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 8px; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px\">Martinez-Conde adds that their research may also explain other similar illusions, such as Bridget Riley&#8217;s Fall, or the Ouchi illusion. &#8220;It would be unexpected if Enigma is the only illusion affected by eye movements,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/data\/images\/ns\/av\/dn14788V1\/dn14788V1.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; color: #000000; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><em style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">See a slideshow of that illusion and others<\/em><\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal\"><\/span>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/channel\/being-human\/dn14788?promcode=nletter&amp;DCMP=NLC-nletter&amp;nsref=dn14788\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at New Scientist<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from New Scientist Shifty eye movements behind famous optical illusion 12:12 23 September 2008 NewScientist.com news service David Robson The cause of an optical illusion, made famous by a 1981 painting, has finally been solved. 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