Pop quiz, hotshot: does the guy on the Monopoly box (standard edition) wear a monocle? Next question: does the Fruit of the Loom logo involve a cornucopia? And finally, does Pikachu have a black-ti…
A lot of them, I feel, can be chalked up to just being things we’d expect; you’d expect a monkey to have a tail, or a rich guy to have a monocle. As disorienting as some of the examples can be, plenty of them can be narrowed down to our minds filling in the blanks. It’s fascinating.
Yeah, it’s an interesting glimpse into how our memory works where the brain just reconstructs the scene based on some key details. It’s a completely different process from the way we store information in computers.
A lot of them, I feel, can be chalked up to just being things we’d expect; you’d expect a monkey to have a tail, or a rich guy to have a monocle. As disorienting as some of the examples can be, plenty of them can be narrowed down to our minds filling in the blanks. It’s fascinating.
Yeah, it’s an interesting glimpse into how our memory works where the brain just reconstructs the scene based on some key details. It’s a completely different process from the way we store information in computers.