{"47423":{"#nid":"47423","#data":{"type":"event","title":"The Art \u0026 Science of Visual Illusion","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhy are we surprised by only \u003Cem\u003Esome\u003C\/em\u003E of the things that we see? Dr. Shapiro, an associate professor of psychology at American University, is a vision scientist who has been designing visual illusions for use as stimuli in experiments investigating the perception of color, color contrast, motion, and brightness.  Dr. Shapiro will discuss how and why he created the illusions, how the illusions inform us about brain function, and the implications of the illusions for understanding vision in the \u0022real\u0022 world.  Some of his illusions have won international awards at contests held in conjunction with scientific conferences; Dr. Shapiro often posts illusions on his blog, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.illusionsciences.com\u0022\u003Ewww.illusionsciences.com\u003C\/a\u003E. The talk will be appropriate for a general audience and will cover topics related to neuroscience, psychology, physics, mathematics, computer science, philosophy, art, and design.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The Georgia Tech Honors Program and College of Sciences welcome Dr. Arthur Shapiro, an associate professor of psychology at American University, on his work studying visual perception.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Visiting professor discusses his work studying visual perception"}],"uid":"27299","created_gmt":"2009-11-23 13:48:36","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:49:20","author":"Michael Hagearty","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2009-12-02T16:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2009-12-02T18:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2009-12-02T18:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2009-12-02 21:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2009-12-02 23:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2009-12-02 23:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.honorsprogram.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Honors Program"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.american.edu\/cas\/faculty\/arthurs.cfm","title":"Arthur Shapiro faculty page"}],"groups":[{"id":"1182","name":"General"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4201","name":"honors program"},{"id":"7816","name":"illusion"},{"id":"7817","name":"perception"},{"id":"1222","name":"psychology"},{"id":"820","name":"vision"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMonica Halka\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech Honors Program\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-7533\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}