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Hoop Nightmares

Retrain your aim to a skewed view.

Where:   Bechtel Gallery 3: Seeing & Listening
Exhibit Developer:   Erik Thogersen, 1998

In under a minute, your brain adapts to a warped view of the world, turning baskets into air balls.

 
Phenomena: Refraction
Keywords: adaptation, proprioception, prisms
Collections: Memory, Seeing, Young Kids

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