{"id":1638,"date":"2018-02-02T08:46:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T08:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lewisdartnell.com\/en-gb\/?page_id=1638"},"modified":"2018-02-02T08:46:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T08:46:21","slug":"hacking-brain-optical-auditory-illusions-can-tell-us-mind-works","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/lewisdartnell.com\/en-gb\/hacking-brain-optical-auditory-illusions-can-tell-us-mind-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacking the Brain: What optical and auditory illusions can tell us about how the mind works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1639\" src=\"http:\/\/lewisdartnell.com\/en-gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Brain-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lewisdartnell.com\/en-gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Brain-300x236.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lewisdartnell.com\/en-gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Brain.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Our brain runs like an organic computer, allowing us to see and hear the world around us. Optical illusions &#8216;hack the brain&#8217; to disrupt this process and so make us see things that aren&#8217;t really there. Another class of illusions which are much less well-known are called auditory illusions and hack the way we hear things. Each different illusion is like doing an experiment on your own brain to see how it works. With live demonstrations of a great variety of optical and auditory illusions, this talk will reveal the inner workings of the mind. Warning: you may begin to see the world in a whole new way!<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you would like to book this talk please <a href=\"mailto:lewis@lewisdartnell.com\">email<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"StumbleUpon\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"Lewis_Dartnell\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Hacking%20the%20Brain%3A%20What%20optical%20and%20auditory%20illusions%20can%20tell%20us%20about%20how%20the%20mind%20works\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our brain runs like an organic computer, allowing us to see and hear the world around us. Optical illusions &#8216;hack the brain&#8217; to disrupt this process and so make us see things that aren&#8217;t really there. Another class of illusions which are much less well-known are called auditory illusions and hack the way we hear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1638","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hacking the Brain: What optical and auditory illusions can tell us about how the mind works - Lewis Dartnell<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/lewisdartnell.com\/en-gb\/hacking-brain-optical-auditory-illusions-can-tell-us-mind-works\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hacking the Brain: What optical and auditory illusions can tell us about how the mind works - Lewis Dartnell\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Our brain runs like an organic computer, allowing us to see and hear the world around us. 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