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neuroscience

Killer Signs of Ambiguity

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

What is the meaning of this sign?
Let me ask you again. What was the meaning that you first perceived? Did that meaning change soon after?
The chances are that you first saw a visual message ‘STOP’ and then, upon reflection, decoded the sign to mean ‘GO’. Perhaps you might even see this image as an […]

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