While new optical illusions go viral all the time, here are some of the most famous illusions that have kept us scratching our heads for years.

In 1906, biologists Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that illuminated the physical structures of the human brain. Working ...

Optical illusions have long fascinated scientists, artists, and everyday viewers. These visual puzzles can make stationary objects appear to move, straight lines look bent, or colours seem to change ...

New research has analyzed human reactions to several optical illusions in which a black mass appears to expand before someone’s very eyes, the New York Times reported. These kinds of static images ...

The Best Illusion of the Year contest offers researchers, and participants, an opportunity to explore the gaps and limits of human perception. By Katrina Miller Take a look at this video of a waiting ...

We love a good trick of the eye here at Creative Bloq. Our pick of the best optical illusions includes everything from Super Mario confusing us on a staircase to a spinning horse. But some mind ...

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This fruity optical illusion tells viewers if their eyes are in denial. Japanese psychologist Akiyoshi Kitaoka went viral on Twitter in 2018 after posting a photo featuring a medley of strawberries ...

In my last article, I introduced the concept of brain illusions whereby people can “adopt” a fake hand as their own, and I mentioned how people with eating disorders are much more susceptible to this ...

Studies show that your brain doesn’t perceive the world exactly as it is. Instead, it “fills in gaps in perception.” The first layer of your brain’s primary visual cortex helps to decide what reality ...