It's called an Ames Room, and it was invented by American ophthalmologist Adelbert Ames, Jr. in 1946 to screw with your brain buff.ly/2qcbbZM [full video by La casa De La Ciencia, Seville, Spain: buff.ly/2ydLpMo]

Save the date! The 44th European Conference on Visual Perception will be held in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, from August 28 to September 1, 2022. See the website and social media for more details!

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Dear Perception colleagues, on popular demand, the abstract submission deadline & Early Bird registration deadline for the European Conference on Visual Perception 2022 has been extended! The new deadline is April 30th (23:59 worldwide). Please, see: 2022.ecvp.eu/registration/

Who made this GORGEOUS effect?

Our second invited academic keynote address for #SoMA22 will be none other than Chris French profchrisfrench.bsky.social 🇺🇦. Prof. French joins us on his home turf of Goldsmiths, University of London, to speak about his work in anomalistic psychology. Register at scienceofmagicassoc.org/2022tickets

You might have noticed already, but the ECVP'22 program is available on our website! See 2022.ecvp.eu/program/. Please find a short 'program at a glance' and a downloadable pdf of the day-to-day program with all symposia, talks and posters.

If you're curious, a draft of the condensed program for #SoMA22 is available at bit.ly/SoMA22-BriefPr…. Register at scienceofmagicassoc.org/2022tickets

The stunning optical illusions by prof. Kokichi Sugihara buff.ly/2UzhxAB [more about prof. Sugihara: buff.ly/2HthCRt]

How the tricks are done ✔️

That's a wrap on a wonderfully smooth #ECVP2022! A big thank you to the organisers Donders Institute Radboud University Conference abstracts will be published in Perception, as will a paper based on Johan Wagemans' Perception Lecture on gestalts in vision.

Job alert (German skills required): zur Verstärkung unseres Teams in Forschung und Lehre in der Allgemeinen Psychologie suchen wir eine(n) WiMi, die/der gern promovieren möchte. Bitte RT. #EyeMovements #VisualCognition #Modelling etc. General & Cognitive Psychology wahrnehmung.psychologie.uni-kiel.de/de/offene-stel…

Btw, this could be your daily view when joining the Ostsee Visual Cognition Lab (just made that name up). Kiel is underrated.

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Supper excited to announce our new book, The Psychology of Magic: From Lab to Stage bit.ly/42a4YNF

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💡 Thrilled to say that our new paper, ‘Insight in the conspiracist’s mind’, is finally out in Personality and Social Psychology Review. With stellar co-authors joberv.bsky.social @stephen_gadsby David Gijbels Karolien Poels See below for a thread. doi.org/10.1177/108886…

Magic for the mind's eye: A promising avenue for more universal design in the art of magic - Vebjørn Ekroll, Lara Wünsch, Rob van Lier, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…