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current optical illusion craze, with people amazed by the scientific phenomenon.In the image, created by Japanese psychologist Akiyoshi Kitaoka, a small square can be seen traveling across a rectangle that’s half pink and half blue with a blended combo of the colors in between.The quadrilateral appears gray while moving in the pink space, then seemingly adopts a pink hue when in the blue.[Warning: Spoilers ahead.]However, as Kitaoka explains in the caption, while the “moving square appears to change in color” its pigment is actually “constant.”A moving square appears to change in color, though the color is constant. pic.twitter.com/phzLNgfIZyThis chameleon-esque effect is caused by a principle called the chromatic induction effect, a perceived color shift that occurs “when one colored object moves around an identical stationary object,” per a 2016 study in the journal “Nature.”“The perceived saturation of the stationary object decreases dramatically whereas the saturation of the moving object increases,” the authors write.

Hoarding disorder affects about 2.6% of all adults, especially those who are older than 60 and suffer from anxiety and depression.Now, Dr.

actor Matthew Perry, who was found dead in the Jacuzzi of his Los Angeles home on Saturday.Almost immediately, “Friends” fans posted tributes on social media and even flocked to the West Village apartment the characters on the show called home to express their sadness for his passing.Even though most fans never met him, therapist Aniesa Hanson, Ph.D., explained that fans often latch onto an “idea” of a star rather than the A-lister themselves.Although our favorite celebrities may not know we exist, our connection to them can still run deep and emotional as we identify with their lives or art in a real way.“Our relationships with celebrities are different than our everyday relationships,” Hanson told Psychology Today. “Our emotional bond with an influential person is based on our projection of what we need that person to be for us during influential moments of our lives.

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thief-catching, dog-loving, mumbling method actor/amateur rapper was delivered unto us under Virgo stars and has, in the words of the internet, been delivering unproblematic gorgeous king behavior ever since. Edward Thomas Hardy was born in the fair city of London on September 15, 1977, making our man a discerning Virgo sun with an art house Libra moon, a compromised Cancer Mars and a show your teeth and bask in the sun Leo Venus.

Psychology and Aging, found that musicians do marginally better on cognitive ability tests than those who didn’t play an instrument.“Music can be such a joyful and enriching experience at all ages, regardless of expertise or musical genre,” Professor Katie Overy of the University of Edinburgh said. “We are keen to investigate musical experience further, including music listening and singing, and we look forward to developing the new volunteer database.”The study — funded by Age UK and the Economic and Social Research Council — included 420 participants who were born in 1936 in the Edinburgh and Lothian areas of Scotland.Of those 420 people,167 had at least some experience playing a musical instrument, mainly the piano and primarily as a child or teenager, and 39 were still playing an instrument at 82 years old.These participants were given tests to measure brainpower every three years, between the ages of 70 to 82.Researchers at the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Napier University found that those with musical experience had a slight link to greater results in tests that looked at processing speed and visuospatial reasoning.“We see these results as an exciting starting point for further investigation into how musical experience from across the life course might contribute to healthy aging,” lead author Dr.