University of Cambridge Lifelong learning and the plastic brain: Our brains are plastic. They continually remould neural connections as we learn, experience and adapt. Now researchers are asking if new understanding of these processes can help us train our brains. When a group of experimental psychologists moved into their new lab space in Cambridge earlier this year, they took a somewhat unconventional approach to refurbishing their tea room: they had the walls tiled with the Café Wall Illusion. The illusion, so-named after it was spotted on the wall of a Bristol café in the 1970s, is a much-debated geometrical trick of the eye and brain in which perfectly parallel lines of black and white tiles appear wedge-shaped and sloped. It’s also an excellent demonstration of how the brain interprets the world in a way that moves beyond what the input is from the eye.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 10:16:46 +0000
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