From: The Atlantic

Bizarre Optical Illusion of the Day: Tram Riders Believe Buildings Are Falling Down

The Atlantic:

Riders on the Hong Kong Peak Tram continue to perceive that skyscrapers are falling down, despite their knowledge that the buildings are structurally sound.

The study, “Falling Skyscrapers: When Cross-Modal Perception of Verticality Fails,” is published in Psychological Science, required hundreds of trips up Hong Kong’s Victoria Peak.

Read the whole story: The Atlantic


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