You could train your brain to be less fooled by optical illusions

Visual delusions may make you feel like you are foolish, but you may be able to train your mind to resist them.

“It is very likely that people from the general public have the ability to not see the illusions and awareness of the world more objectively,” he says. Radoslaw Wincza At Lancaster University, UK.

Winza and his colleagues recruited 44 radiologists, with an average of 36 years old, who spent more than a decade discovering small details such as fractures in medical surveying. They also looked at 107 university students, an average age of 23, who were studying medicine or psychology.

Each participant was shown on four illusions on the screen, one by one. In every illusion, the participants saw pairs of shapes, sizes, or slightly different lengths, and had to choose a larger or longer.

In three delusions, other objects made the largest shape or the longer line look smaller or shorter. The team found that the radiologists were less likely to be these illusions than students.

“Radiologists have this ability to really focus on the main elements of the visual scene, as they ignore the indisputable context and they have a tunnel vision.” “By setting better in the target, they do not experience the illusion as much.”

In the fourth illusion, one of the forms was vertical, while her husband was horizontal. This made the latter look wider, although it was already narrower. Both groups were equal to the illusion. This is perhaps because this does not include any surrounding things, so it was less about adjusting deviations in the background, which may be practiced by radiologists well, says WINCZA.

He says: “He indicates that anyone can acquire this ability to be less likely to delusion if he trains himself.” Carla Evans At York University, UK. For example, the focus on specific aspects of the image may improve this ability, although more work is needed to see how quickly it is, she says. “It may take years or weeks.”