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 ...

Nature is full of an almost infinite array of colors, but some are more unique than others. Apart from the inanimate sky and water, the color blue only some animals and flowers have the privilege of ...

Before jumping on in we have one question on our minds: what is an optical illusion? What is an optical illusion? Optical illusions are visuals that tend to be deceptive to the eye and brain. This is ...

Optical illusions are great fun, and they fool virtually everyone. But have you ever wondered if you could train yourself to unsee these illusions? Our latest research suggests that you can. Optical ...

Have you ever looked at two circles of exactly the same size and sworn one was larger? If so, your eyes have been tricked by the Ebbinghaus illusion, a classic example of how context can shape what we ...

When a human looks at a distant skyscraper, it appears small to the eye. It’s a visual illusion, and we use other contextual information to know the building is actually tall. Our new study shows, for ...