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7/1/2012

Duration: 00:52:31

Perception versus reality : Amateur Skeptics 062


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Announcements:
Saturday, July 21 - HOC: Grand Junction Mini Conference
Friday, August 30-Monday, September 3 - Atheist Alliance of America (AAA) Conference

Perception vs Reality:

Perception

Perception From Wikipedia

Head Games - Ian (In the first episode ‘conformity’ it had an experiment that had people seeing a non-existent snake in a tree.)

Swordfighting: Not What You Think It Is - Ian

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning - Ian

Matrixing - Shawn

Pareidolia -Worth revisiting per the subject matter - Shawn

Unmasking the Face on Mars - Bryan

Facial Recognition - Shawn

The Science of GayDar - Shawn

Book on brain perception:
Invisible Gorilla Christopher Chabris (Author), Daniel Simons (Author)
Sleights of Mind Stephen L. Macknik (Author), Susana Martinez-Conde (Author), Sandra Blakeslee (Author)
How the Brain Works by Steven Pinker
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman


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