Our brains create false perceptions through these illusions, which make us see things that do not exist while they distort the actual appearance of objects. The human eye perceives motion through ...

Feed-perfect illusion rooms, puzzling hands-on interactive installations, perplexing holograms and optical tricks are just a few of the more than 50 attractions the Dallas Museum of Illusions has ...

Optical illusions occur naturally in different habitats and conditions across the world. Cloud formations can sometimes make it seem like there's an ocean or a UFO in the sky. Whether it is salt flats ...

We built them to be cold, calculating, and immune to the subjective flaws of the biological mind. Yet, when shown a specific ...

In this Ebbinghaus illusion of relative size perception, the orange circle on the left looks bigger than the one on the right - but it is actually 10 per cent smaller. In a new study, medical imaging ...

Martin Doherty received funding from the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust who partially supported this work. He continues to receive funding from the Leverhulme Trust. Radoslaw Wincza does not work ...