Optical illusions have fascinated scientists, psychologists, and artists for centuries because they reveal one simple truth ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Illusions like these mess with the brain's visual processing system, making viewers see things ...

Your brain is lying to you right now. Not maliciously, and not because something’s wrong with it. It’s doing exactly what ...

A head-scratching optical illusion challenges the perception of color and how the brain plays tricks on us. In an image created by the UK contact lens vendor Lenstore, a series of lilac letters ...

One user branded it "the ultimate optical illusion" due to the amount of debate it had prompted. Some refused to believe it ...

A study of mice starts to unravel how the brain gets tricked by this kind of optical illusion, and it gives clues about how visual perception works. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

When Dimitris Papailiopoulos first asked ChatGPT to interpret colors in images, he was thinking about “the dress”—the notoriously confusing optical-illusion photograph that took the Internet by storm ...

Optical illusions play on the brain's biases, tricking it into perceiving images differently than how they really are. And now, in mice, scientists have harnessed an optical illusion to reveal hidden ...