The Ames room,in which people are seen to get small or enlarge as they move about,demonstrates that our perception of the world depends strongly on

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The Ames room illusion is a classic example of how our perception of the world depends strongly on the assumptions we make about it. In the Ames room, the distorted perspective of the room creates an illusion that people of different sizes are standing next to each other, but in reality, they are standing at different depths in the room. Our brain's interpretation of the visual information is based on our assumptions about the normal sizes and shapes of objects in 3D space, even though the proximal stimulus elements and distal stimuli are distorted.

The Ames Room,in Which People Are Seen to Get Small