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'Time-travel illusion' tricks brain into seeing something that isn't really there

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...other.html

SUMMARY: Researchers developed an illusion that explains how our brain perceives things. Illusion plays three beeps seconds apart and quick flashes at the same time. Most participants assume that the illusion actually shows three quick flashes. In reality, this is a result of 'postdiction' - a phenomenon in the brain where it gathers information after an event has occurred, to explain what happened....

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