...The perception produced by this illusion occurs because of the way that neurons in the brain interact. Some neurons make
excitatory connections, meaning that they excite other neurons. These "neural extroverts" are a loud, raucous ...
Rapid Naming tests your ability to connect visual and verbal information by giving the appropriate names to common objects, colors,
letters, and digits. While the matching itself is pretty easy – "man" corresponds to the round shape ...
...To most people, five of these circles look convex. The one at bottom center looks concave. In fact, all the
circles are identical. The one at bottom center is just upside down. However, the brain interprets the circles with the darker part at ...
Our brains can do amazing things—but in the right circumstances, they can also fool us. Try the brain tricks and teasers below and find out what's going on in the brain in each one.