Like any magic trick, once you know the secret of an optical illusion, it's hard to fall for it again. But here's an example ...

Don’t trust your initial perception.

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 ...

This brain-frazzling optical illusion is enough to put your head into a spin. The purple-and-yellow image looks as though it’s both three-dimensional and moving but is in fact stationary and flat.

Illusions like these mess with the brain's visual processing system, making viewers see things that aren't there in reality. | Credit: Eva Almqvist via Getty Images Optical illusions play tricks on ...

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Chances are you’ve encountered some version of the “Ebbinghaus illusion,” in which a central circle appears to be smaller when encircled by larger circles and seems larger when surrounded by smaller ...

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 ...

Optical illusions aren’t just playful tricks. They often hint at how your brain works beneath the surface. Take this puzzle, for instance. It is one of the most amusing optical illusions in psychology ...

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 ...

Optical illusions, quantum mechanics and neural networks might seem to be quite unrelated topics at first glance. However, in new research I have used a phenomenon called “quantum tunnelling” to ...