{"id":48,"date":"2008-11-30T20:15:34","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T18:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yloveillusions.com\/en\/?p=48"},"modified":"2008-11-25T20:16:12","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T18:16:12","slug":"necker-cube-how-we-see-in-2-different-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/2008\/11\/30\/necker-cube-how-we-see-in-2-different-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"Necker cube &#8211; how we see in 2 different ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Dave Munger <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/cognitivedaily\/2008\/11\/seeing_illusions_in_two_differ.php\">on ScienceBlogs<\/a>, it is now possible to understand why and how a cube can be seen in two different ways.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/kornmeier1.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"kornmeier1\" width=\"438\" height=\"203\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/kornmeier1.gif 438w, https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/kornmeier1-300x139.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first cube (A) is ambiguous because it can be recognized in two different ways (either cube B or cube C) and this perception can change from time to time if you keep looking at it. It&#8217;s not a perceptual illusion per se, but a visual reconstruction by our brain. And this same process is often used by optical illusions.<\/p>\n<p>Now, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/cognitivedaily\/2008\/11\/seeing_illusions_in_two_differ.php\">Seeing shapes in two different ways: how and when it happens<\/a>&#8221; is a good paper trying to give us a better understanding of this phenomenon and even showing a video to support the explanations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Dave Munger on ScienceBlogs, it is now possible to understand why and how a cube can be seen in two different ways. The first cube (A) is ambiguous because it can be recognized in two different ways (either cube B or cube C) and this perception can change from time to time if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yloveillusions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}