Cronin et al. (2014) – Visual ecology (UV vision in animals)What if you can’t fully trust your own brain?

In this episode of Messy Minded, we explore how the brain builds reality through perception, memory, and emotion—and how that process can sometimes go wrong. From sensory perception and optical illusions to false memories, cognitive bias, and the neuroscience behind how we interpret the world, your mind is constantly filling in gaps with its best guess.

We’ll look at how memory reconsolidation can change your past, why eyewitness testimony isn’t always reliable, and how psychological phenomena like the McGurk effect and Pareidolia reveal the limits of human perception.

We’ll also dive into sensory deprivation, hallucinations, and moral psychology—exploring how even your emotions and sense of right and wrong can be influenced by physical sensations like disgust.

Your brain is an incredible prediction machine… but it doesn’t show you reality—it constructs it.

And sometimes?

It gets it wrong.

@MessyMindedPod

Sources:

Anil Seth – Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

Cronin et al. (2014) – Visual ecology (UV vision in animals)

Orfield Laboratories (Minneapolis) – Anechoic chamber research & demonstrations

Eskine et al. (2013) – Ginger reducing disgust → more lenient judgments

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SoundPlusUS Label and Mr. Lex Oleksii Bezalov for "Spark Groove", Nikita Kondrashev for "Cosy, Quirky, Comedy", “Quirky Sneaky”, “Quirky Sneaky Mystery”, “Quirky Sneaky Comedy” Music by Dmitrii Kolesnikov, "spellcraft" by Geoff Harvey.

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