MRCPsych on the Go: Revision Essentials
Hello! My name is Dr Aalap Asurlekar, and I am a psychiatry trainee in the UK. I created MRCPsych on the Go to make revision for the MRCPsych exams easier to fit around busy clinical work.
This podcast is designed for psychiatry trainees preparing for Paper A, B, CASC but also, medical students. Each episode focuses on key syllabus topics and explains them in clear, structured language to help you understand and retain the most important concepts.
Topics range from psychopathology, psychopharmacology, neuroscience, sociology, behavioral science, psychological therapies to clinical assessment. Episodes include exam style questions and clinical scenarios to support active recall and exam preparation.
The aim is to provide focused, high yield psychiatry revision you can listen to during commutes, walks or between shifts.
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MRCPsych on the Go: Revision Essentials
8. Why Our Eyes Deceive Us: Visual Illusions, Pareidolia and the Brain
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Your brain is not a camera. It is an active interpreter, constantly making predictions and filling in gaps. And sometimes it gets things spectacularly wrong.
In this episode, we explore how the brain constructs visual perception and where that process breaks down. We cover optical illusions, pareidolia, perceptual errors and Richard Gregory's constructivist theory of perception, which argues that seeing is always an act of inference rather than passive recording.
Ideal for MRCPsych Part A revision, psychology students and anyone intrigued by the tricks the brain plays on us. Aligned with the Royal College of Psychiatrists MRCPsych Part A syllabus, paragraph 1.1.2.