Our brains are capable of doing so many things, why are they not able to decipher an illusion?
In class this week we looked at different illusions and the science behind why we see them in a certain way. When looking at the dog house, none of it made sense. It looked like the planks were complete and going behind other planks when in fact they should have been in front of them. Our brain was able to convert the image into neural pulses, including processing the color, depth, and size of the house, but it was not able to see that there were holes in the planks of wood. The bottom down processing used when looking at this picture hindered our ability to accurately see it.