# Time-traveling illusion tricks the brain

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**Created:** [October 31, 2018, 2:47am UTC](https://archive.menshealtharchive.com/t/time-traveling-illusion-tricks-the-brain/451 "2018-10-31T02:47:14Z")\
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> **[Time-traveling illusion tricks the brain: How the brain retroactively makes...](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181009113612.htm)**
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> Researchers have developed two new illusions that reveal how the senses can influence each other -- in particular, how sound can give rise to visual illusions. These illusions occur so quickly that they illustrate a phenomenon called postdiction (as...

  
Researchers have developed two new illusions that reveal how the senses can influence each other – in particular, how sound can give rise to visual illusions. These illusions occur so quickly that they illustrate a phenomenon called postdiction (as opposed to prediction) in which a stimulus that occurs later can retroactively affect our perceptions of an earlier event.