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To see the illusion, keep your eyes on the cross in the middle of the screen, as the celebrities’ faces scroll in front of you.
If you keep your eyes focused on the cross in the middle and on the faces in your peripheral vision, the faces will start to look distorted.
“Your favorite celebrities like scary monsters with gruesome features,” the video explains.
However, when you pause the video and look intently at the faces, their features will appear to return to normal.
On TikTok, commenters on the post gathered to share their horror at what they had witnessed.
“I saw him five times. It’s scary indeed,” one speaker wrote.
In this terrifying TikTok, Dr. Karan Raj presents an example of an optical ghost called the blinking face distortion effect.
One commenter added: “It scared the hell out of me. I blinked, they were ‘normal’ and then they distorted.
Meanwhile, he wrote: “Mom, I’m afraid I need to come home. “
Fortunately, this is not a supernatural phenomenon, but a well-documented optical ghost called the flickering face distortion effect.
Dr. Raj explains that this is an example of how the brain makes assumptions about what it sees when it doesn’t have all the information.
He says, “For example, if your brain thinks it sees a nose, it will give that feature a gruesome shape. »
Interestingly, unlike many optical illusions, this phenomenon has only recently been discovered.
The distortion effect of the blinking face was first described in 2011 by a team of researchers from the University of Queensland.
In the video, pairs of celebrity faces temporarily appear on the screen. As you keep your eyes fixed on the faint cross in the middle of the image, the faces of the celebrities begin to transform into gruesome monsters.
As Dr. Raj points out, this effect is pronounced if the presented face has a peculiarity such as a giant nose or forehead.
In their paper published in the journal Perception, the researchers described this effect as follows: “When you walk between faces on a computer screen, each face becomes a cool animated movie of itself and some faces look very distorted, even grotesque. “.
As Dr. Raj noted, the researchers also found that the effect was more pronounced in faces with some type of feature that made them distinctive.
For example, the researchers note that if the user of the photo had a giant forehead, the resulting ghost would have a wide forehead.
But the thing about the face distortion effect is that scientists still don’t fully understand why it works.
In 2019, researchers at North Dakota State University found that this effect depended on some mechanism related to our perception of faces.
They found that appearing faces with makeup or inverting images, which has a giant effect on facial perception, did not replace the point of distortion.
However, this is very unusual for an optical illusion, as it gives participants more time to look at the faces the greater the degree of distortion experienced.
They write: “It is not clear why prolonged viewing did not ultimately weaken the effect, especially if participants can adapt to something like the average face of all the specimens included in the sequence. “
These researchers suggest that this effect is probably due to the blurring of objects in our peripheral vision, but ultimately conclude that “despite the popularity of the illusion, there is still no clear consensus on its basis. “
Delboeuf’s phantom is a type of visual phantom in which a point surrounded by a giant ring is perceived as smaller than a point of the same length surrounded by a small ring.
This optical trick causes your brain to perceive the point in the context of the outer ring.
It owes its name to the Belgian mathematician Joseph Rémi Léopold Delboeuf (1831 – 1896), who created it in 1865.
Delboeuf’s ghost is a type of visual ghost in which a point surrounded by a giant ring is perceived to be smaller than a point of the same length surrounded by a small ring.
In terms of plate size, the theory is that having a smaller plate makes other people think they have more food.
However, new studies suggest that when other people are hungry, they can correctly identify the portion of food, regardless of how it is served.
According to the researchers, this indicates that hunger stimulates a more powerful analytical procedure that is just as easily fooled through illusion.
However, it is widely believed that Delboeuf’s ghost works in contexts.
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