With a new series of experiments, scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they have a better idea why we fall for a very old optical illusion called simultaneous brightness ...

(WHTM) — There’s nothing like a bewildering optical illusion to get the weekend off to a good start. There are all kinds to choose from: the image that looks like one thing but also loo… ...

Oyvind Kolas has produced a number of images in which he uses a "colour assimilation grid illusion" over black and white photographs to trick the brain into seeing a full colour picture.

If you’re familiar with these visual spectacles then you may have seen the walking horse optical illusion that went viral after it stumped the internet. Consider this the IRL version.

They conducted an experiment involving 44 radiologists and over 100 psychology and medical students. Their conclusion is that the radiologists were less susceptible to optical illusions like the ...

But not everyone is taken in by the illusion, so if you have no idea what’s going on in these images, you are not alone: 14 percent of participants in the study also did not report seeing it. Dr ...

Don't believe your eyes in this eye-popping experiment! Dr Chris and Dr Xand teach you how to trick your eyes with an optical illusion that's more than it seems!

Another optical trick, the T-illusion, which you can try for yourself, affects the serving size of liquids. We tend to overestimate vertical lengths, compared with horizontal lengths.

In a series of lab experiments in mice, researchers have now shown that these neurons play a fundamental role in this process and that their activity is also tempered by feedback from V2 neurons.

Don't believe your eyes in this eye-popping experiment! Dr Chris and Dr Xand teach you how to trick your eyes with an optical illusion that's more than it seems!

As per the US National Eye Institute, an optical illusion is something that plays tricks on your vision. It teaches us how our eyes and brain work together to see a two-dimensional image.We live ...