EPISODE · Aug 1, 2013 · 12 MIN
Ep 199: Depth Perception - How Your Brain Sees What's Not There
from Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files · host Michael Britt
How do you create a sense of depth in a flat image? In this video I'll show you how to use 5 principles of depth perception to turn a flat image into one that looks like it has depth. I'll be drawing from terms you would learn about in a chapter from a psychology text on Sensation and Perception. We'll have a little fun exploring how we can use what your brain expects to see to trick it into seeing what we want it to see.
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How do you create a sense of depth in a flat image? In this video I'll show you how to use 5 principles of depth perception to turn a flat image into one that looks like it has depth. I'll be drawing from terms you would learn about in a chapter from a psychology text on Sensation and Perception. We'll have a little fun exploring how we can use what your brain expects to see to trick it into seeing what we want it to see.
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Ep 199: Depth Perception - How Your Brain Sees What's Not There
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