What does this demonstration tell us about sensation & perception?
Can you see both the frog and horse at the same time?
Is this evidence of a bi-stable illusion?
(thanks to Gerri for sending)
What does this demonstration tell us about sensation & perception?
Can you see both the frog and horse at the same time?
Is this evidence of a bi-stable illusion?
(thanks to Gerri for sending)
That is pretty crazy. It's hard to see both the frog and the horse at the same time, its kind of like the pattern snaps back and forth between the two.
This is really intriguing and mind blowing because at first you see the frog and our trying to look for the picture of the horse before it flips over, but our brains have trouble visualizing it at first until it does flip over to the picture of the horse, then one has difficulty remembering/seeing the picture of the frog prior. I actually had to tilt my head until I could see the prior picture again...a great illusion.
I think this is really the reason that perception amazes me. It's unbelievable that we can see two totally different images from just one picture. Our perception of the picture changes when we simply rotate the picture. I think at first we see the frog because in reality, a horse would not be tilted sideways, so our brain finds the most efficient and plausible way to interpret this picture. Also, every image has ambiguity, or doubt in its real meaning, depending on the perspective or viewpoint. This also correlates I believe with the Pandemonium Model. Pandemonium means noise and chaos. With the Pandemonium Model, bits and parts of the feature are called demons. Cognitive demons, one for each letter, had certain ideas about the features of their letter. The demons kind of work together and the ones that make the most noise describe the letter. Our brains kind of piece together different pieces of information which I believe creates different perceptions. It may not correlate exactly but it's kind of related.
At first I could only see the frog but once the rotation ended I could see the horse! I love illusions like this because they are ambiguous and it depends largely on the context and perspective that you view it from. I now can see both the frog and the horse at the same time. This is evidence of a bi-stable illusion because there are two interpretations the mind can creat from the image.
I thought this was a really cool image. At first I could only see the frog, but after the image rotated I could see the horse. I agree with m.anderson in the fact that every image has ambiguity to it and our brains are going to chose the option that makes the most since. We discussed this in class today, and i think that it applies to this situation.
I dont think it's possible to see frog and horse at the same time on this image. As we talked in class this week that our brain is choosing what do we want to see and how are we going to interpret it.It's a really great illusion.
At first all I could see was the frog as well. It took the rotation for me to make out the image of the horse. Afte that I tried to go back and forth looking at the frog and the horse but it took a few times for my brain to discriminate between the two.
During our Tuesday lecture we learned that the brains job is to resolve ambiguity in what we see. We also talked about what we see being based on expectations. The first thing I saw for the post was the words frog rotation. Therefore, my first expectation was to see a frog. When I read the information for the post it mentioned a horse as well. I don't think I would have even noticed a horse when it rotated if the expectation wasn't already there. I do believe this is showing a bi-stable Illusion. I don't remember talking about it in class but from what I have found on line I believe this fits into the idea of a bi-stable illusion. From what I found a bi-stable illusion occurs when a picture or pattern is too ambiguous for the visual system to recognize one interpretation.
This image is pretty amazing. It reminds me of the duck/rabbit picture because you always see one object first but then once you find the other one it's hard to go back. This example is easier because the picture moves to make the horse upright, but I'm not sure I'd see the horse if it didn't do that. This is similar to the necker cube because there are multiple ways that you can see the image, it just depends on how it's being portrayed.