Experiments Challenge Our Great Expectations ; Last Night's Television Reviewed

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Our senses seem so straightforward: we see with our eyes, we hear with our ears, we taste with our tongues, we smell with our noses and we feel touch through the nerve-endings in our skin. Or do we? Actually, it's a lot more complicated than that as this absorbing Horizon exploration revealed.

We are constantly bombarded with sensory information and it's our brains that put it all in order. But that doesn't mean, for example, that the image captured by our retina is the one our brain tells us we are seeing. It will often - as in the picture above - place it in a perspective according to what we are born with or have experienced in the past.

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Experiments Challenge Our Great Expectations ; Last Night's Television Reviewed

Optical illusions have long been used by magicians to trick our...

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