Cultural Optical Illusion: What Do You See?

Posted by Mike Richard on December 3, 2007
Filed under: Odds + Ends, Sidelines

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This is a fascinatingly simple optical illusion. From Eyes-and-Vision.com:

The influence of culture and environment can have an effect on our visual perception. This theory was first explored by Robert Laws, a Scottish missionary working in Malawi, Africa, during the late 1800’s. Take a look at the picture below. What you see will largely depend on where you live in the world.

Cultural Optical Illusion

I see exactly what Westerners are expected to see.

What do you see? After you’ve examined the picture, check out the original post for an explanation.

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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.



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Comments

Amanda
December 4th, 2007
3:20 am

Wow, that’s interesting. I, too, am a depressingly typical Westerner :-) but I kinda wish I was more into the tree idea …