Playing Tricks on Babies

If you told me you'd be taking my baby on a guided hallucination - I'd scoop her up and run so fast I'd leave skid marks.

November 13, 2009 at 9:37PM

It's alright, it's in the name of science.

We like to share interesting links with our readers when they come our way. Here is one of them from the University of Minnesota. This research study is pretty fascinating - babies are able to provide valuable research before they can even talk.

If you told me you'd be taking my baby on a guided hallucination - I'd scoop her up and run so fast I'd leave skid marks. But really, it's okay. That's exactly what has been going on at the University of Minnesota's Institute for Child Development, where babies (less than one year old) participate in perception research. They try to grasp at a 3D model that looks like it's 2D. (fooled me too) .

Their researchers are gleaning some pretty interesting things about how our visual systems work.

Click on the video below to go on a guided hallucination yourself.

You can read an in-depth article about the research here.

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