| Sumario: | Part of a special issue on the consequences of errors in the social and natural sciences. The research that experimental psychologists have conducted on human errors in an effort to infer laws of cognition—of perception, memory, and thought—is discussed. It is argued that the study of cognitive errors has focused on a logical definition of errors and, because of the tendency to confuse forms of human intelligence that transcend logic with foolish gaffes, reveals little about cognitive laws. It is concluded that, if this type of logical analysis is replaced by an ecological approach, for which the investigation of visual illusions is a prototype, a window into the mind can begin to be opened.
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