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Just a daisy (margherita)

Bianca 😺

Macaques’ eye pupils 👁️constrict to Akiyoshi Kitaoka ‘s bright illusions and especially when they are blue🌀 published in the Journal of Vision Journal of Vision see open access article: jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?a…

The monkeys' pupillary response to the illusory light was relatively stronger than that of humans, regardless whether the tested humans knew about the llusion or did not 👁

Eye pupils expand to really expanding shapes but also illusorily-expanding patterns and more so when one has the illusion of moving forward and into a dark tunnel ⚫️ A study by Laeng Shoaib Nabil and Akiyoshi Kitaoka, now online in Perception & i-Perception Journals doi.org/10.1177/030100…

Oslo 2024

Face hybrids as stimuli for probing the brain’s processing of facial expressions: sub-cortical (low spatial frequencies) versus cortical (high spatial frequencies), or conscious versus subliminal 🧠 Online in Neuropsychology APA Journals☑️ doi.org/10.1037/neu000…

Evidence for a robust and highly heritable Musical Sensibility factor (i.e., the tendency to be emotionally and aesthetically engaged by music) 🥁🎻 a Twin study from UniOslo_RITMO & PROMENTA UiO🫂🇳🇴 in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Tunnel vision 😵‍💫

Visiting Kitaoka sensei in his office in Osaka, just a couple of weeks ago 👁️ Saneyoshi sensei (from Tokyo) to my right

The duck-banana illusion 🦆🍌

Real size does not matter 😵‍💫

すばらしい Subarashī ! 😵‍💫

No horizontals

'Eppur si muove' (Galilei)

📰A Twin study from Norway on personality differences and emotionality to music, by Hansen, Laeng, Vassend, Czajkowski, Endestad, Danielsen & Røysamb (2025): 'The role of Big Five personality domains and facets in musical sensibility' 🎼👥 nature.com/articles/s4159…

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