Have you ever looked at an image and doubted what your eyes were telling you? Well, you are not the only one because such optical illusions commonly take place when your brain wrongly interprets what ...

A new optical illusion excellently illustrates just how finicky our eyes are when it comes to perceiving colors.

A grayscale ballerina who appears to be moving. A human who can fit in a doll box. A black-and-white prism that appears to change shape when... Optical illusions are a brain feature, not a bug. Here's ...

Finding the hidden number in this zigzag optical illusion in under 21 seconds is a sign of above average vision. Take the test and find out what your eyes are capable of.

An illusion is when we see and perceive an object that doesn't match the sensory input that reaches our eyes. In the case of the image below, the sensory input is four Pac Man–like black figures. But ...

Schulz-Hildebrandt, a biomedical optics engineer at Harvard Medical School, ran with his observation and developed an ...

Researchers investigate how mice process illusions, highlighting the neural circuitry involved in seeing and perception. An illusion is when we see and perceive an object that doesn’t match the ...

Bobby Moore breaks down audio illusions that will mess with your brain.

As you scroll through this article, your brain is hard at work creating the mental world you live in. You probably have a seamless sense that you’re embedded in a world full of other people, objects, ...

Hold a pencil upright in front of your face. Close one eye, look at the pencil, then open that eye, and close the other. Did you notice that your view of the pencil shifted slightly when you looked ...

In certain diseases you have patterns of activity that emerge in your brain that are abnormal, and in schizophrenia these are related to object representations that pop up randomly” — Jerome Lecoq, Ph ...