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Multistable perception — Examples of visually ambiguous patterns. Multistable perceptual phenomena are a form of perceptual phenomena in which there are unpredictable sequences of spontaneous subjective changes. While usually associated with visual perception, such… … Wikipedia
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Mathematical and theoretical biology — is an interdisciplinary scientific research field with a range of applications in biology, medicine and biotechnology.[1] The field may be referred to as mathematical biology or biomathematics to stress the mathematical side, or as theoretical… … Wikipedia
Philosophy of perception — The philosophy of perception concerns how mental processes and symbols depend on the world internal and external to the perceiver. Our perception of the external world begins with the senses, which lead us to generate empirical concepts… … Wikipedia
Gestalt psychology — (also Gestalt of the Berlin School) is a theory of mind and brain that proposes that the operational principle of the brain is holistic, parallel, and analog, with self organizing tendencies; or, that the whole is different than the sum of its… … Wikipedia
Multistability — Ambiguous images Multistability is a system property. It refers to systems that are neither stable nor totally instable, but that alternates between two or more mutually exclusive states over time. In vision science, multistable perception… … Wikipedia
Monocular rivalry — Demonstration of monocular rivalry. Monocular rivalry is a phenomenon of human visual perception that occurs when two different images are optically superimposed. During prolonged viewing, one image becomes clearer than the other for a few… … Wikipedia
Ambiguous image — Ambiguous images are optical illusion images which are crafted to exploit graphical similarities and other properties of visual system interpretation between two or more distinct image forms. These are famous for inducing the phenomenon of… … Wikipedia
Ambiguity — Sir John Tenniel s illustration of the Caterpillar for Lewis Carroll s Alice s Adventures in Wonderland is noted for its ambiguous central figure, whose head can be viewed as being a human male s face with a pointed nose and pointy chin or being… … Wikipedia
Bistability — Something that is bistable can be resting in two states. In physics, for an ensemble of particles, the bistability comes from the fact that its free energy has three critical points. Two of them are minima and the last is a maximum. By… … Wikipedia
