Mind-controlled motion

02/19/2019

My new Psychology Today blog, Illusions, Delusion, and Reality, is live, and the first post is about mind-controlled motion!

What you think is what you see.

06/05/2018

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13414-018-1483-1

Although sequences of uncorrelated random dots can yield a wide range of illusorily coherent motion percepts (including translation, rotation, contraction, expansion, shear, and rebounding motion),...

06/05/2018

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28893151

Perception. 2018 Jan;47(1):30-43. doi: 10.1177/0301006617731007. Epub 2017 Sep 11.

04/05/2017

http://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2613323

Nicolas Davidenko, Nathan H. Heller, Yeram Cheong, Jacob Smith; Persistent illusory apparent motion in sequences of uncorrelated random dots.

06/13/2015

Dear friends & family, thank you so much for all your votes & support over the past couple of days. The 3 winning illusions were announced this morning, and while this one didn't place, I'm proud to have been selected as a finalist!

You can view & rate Mind-controlled motion here:
http://illusionoftheyear.com/2015/mind-controlled-motion/

and enjoy the other top-10 finalists here:
http://illusionoftheyear.com/cat/top-10-finalists/2015/

All my best,
Nick

06/12/2015

Thanks for all your votes & shares!!!

Let's bring this illusion to the top! Voting ends in 1 hour -- if you haven't already, find a computer, visit: http://illusionoftheyear.com/vote/

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Thank you!!
Nick

06/12/2015

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06/12/2015

Thanks friends for liking my Page! I don't know what a Page is!

If you want to test out your motion-control abilities, tendencies, and biases, stare at this randomly refreshing array of pixels for a while...

https://davidenko.sites.ucsc.edu/mind-controlled-motion/

06/11/2015

Vote for "Mind-controlled motion" by Nicolas Davidenko as illusion of the year starting now! Give the illusion 5 stars here: http://illusionoftheyear.com/vote

The Best illusion of the Year Contest is a celebration of the ingenuity and creativity of the world’s premier illusion research community. Contestants from all around the world submitted novel illusions (unpublished, or published no earlier than 2014), and an international panel of judges rated them…