This optical illusion confuses the brain, revealing how perception works and misfires. It also shows links between visual ...

Optical illusions never fail to amaze us. From pictures showing straight lines that appear to bend at an angle to stationary circles that appear in motion to numbers hidden in plain sight ...

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Scientist creates tricky optical square illusion that tricks your brain into thinking it's moving by designing the shapes with luminance-based edges that activate motion-detecting neurons.

This viral optical illusion reveals whether you're wired to dominate with strategy or explore with heart. What you see first, ...

Check out these optical illusions and brain puzzles to learn how and why. Yes, your mind really is playing tricks on you. ... As you move away from the image, the lines appear to rotate clockwise.

The Best Illusion of the Year contest offers researchers, and participants, an opportunity to explore the gaps and limits of ...

In a new series of illusions by Jackpotjoy, nine out of 10 people who stare into the black hole will see it growing and moving. However, for the other one out of 10 people it appears completely still.

In the stopped clock illusion, there’s a clear absence of information: the eyes are moving when the clock ticks, and thus miss the actual moment when the movement occurs. Is something similar ...