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Illusion

An illusion is a distortion of the senses, which can reveal how the mind normally organizes and interprets sensory stimulation. Although illusions distort the human perception of reality, they are generally shared by most people.

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Illusion

Nodes42
Edges41
Triples55
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.047619
Components1

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Illusion

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see also · 18
Illusion → Aesthetic, Altered, Any, Aporia, Argument, Cognitive, Critique, Delusion, Dream, Fixation, Form, Holography, List, Mental, Postulation, Recording, State, Type
related to External links · 9
Illusion → Block, Gabriel Robles-De-La-Torre, Michael BachAuditory, Optical, Perception, Shape, Silencing, Universal Veiling Techniques Archived, Wayback MachineWhat
related to Visual · 7
Illusion → During, Each, Mach, The, The Hermann, Therefore, Visual
related to Intersensory · 5
Illusion → Both, Evidence, Illusions, It, The McGurk
is a · 4
Illusion → distortion in the perception of time, distortion of the senses, illusion of hearing, Shepard tone
related to Auditory · 4
Illusion → An, In, One, Shepard
related to Tactile · 4
Illusion → Examples, Tactile, The, These
related to Disorders · 3
Illusion → For, Some, While
related to Temporal · 1
Illusion → In

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illusions visual perception senses hallucination auditory stimulus processing stimulation example brain distortion human tactile reality optical occur sensory see percept

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Illusionis adistortion of the senses0.90text
Illusionis aillusion of hearing0.90text
Illusionis aShepard tone0.90text
Illusionis adistortion in the perception of time0.90text
Illusionrelated to AuditoryAn0.60section
Illusionrelated to AuditoryIn0.60section
Illusionrelated to AuditoryOne0.60section
Illusionrelated to AuditoryShepard0.60section
Illusionrelated to DisordersSome0.60section
Illusionrelated to DisordersWhile0.60section
Illusionrelated to DisordersFor0.60section
Illusionrelated to External linksUniversal Veiling Techniques Archived0.60section

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