Editorial: The Future of Perceptual Illusions: From Phenomenology to Neuroscience

Editorial on the Research Topic The Future of Perceptual Illusions: From Phenomenology to Neuroscience We have accepted a total of 42 articles for this special issue, which together have earned 80,000 views as of June 2, 2016, showing the popularity of illusions as a subject for both authors and rea...

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Published in:Frontiers in human neuroscience 2017-02, Vol.11, p.9-9
Main Authors: Reeves, Adam, Pinna, Baingio
Format: Article
Language:English
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Adaptation
Brain research
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Editorials
Nervous system
Neuroscience
Neurosciences
Phenomenology
Retina
Smooth pursuit eye movements
Watercolor painting
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Summary:Editorial on the Research Topic The Future of Perceptual Illusions: From Phenomenology to Neuroscience We have accepted a total of 42 articles for this special issue, which together have earned 80,000 views as of June 2, 2016, showing the popularity of illusions as a subject for both authors and readers. [...]taken together, the papers support what we claim to be the fundamental principle of perceptual science, namely, that illusions (especially of the mismatch variety) illustrate basic processes in perception; they should not be disregarded as unecological, accidental, or due to random failures of processing. A consequence is that brain science should only be invoked when the neural modeling is sophisticated enough (as in Grossberg's paper) to have some chance of accounting for the typically elaborate complications of the behavioral and phenomenological data; brain scanning is not enough. Blanuša and Zdravković find the H-V illusion is equal in perception and imagery, suggesting that these processes share a neural substrate, but also find an unexpected gender effect on the size of mental image for medium and large stimuli.
ISSN:1662-5161
1662-5161
DOI:10.3389/fnhum.2017.00009