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 ...

The S-cones make up only 8–12 percent of all cones in the retina and are almost completely absent in the absolute center of the fovea.” Taken all together, this means some colors are easily ...

A grayscale ballerina who appears to be moving. A human who can fit in a doll box. A black-and-white prism that appears to change shape when... Optical illusions are a brain feature, not a bug. Here's ...

An illusion is when we see and perceive an object that doesn't match the sensory input that reaches our eyes. In the case of the image below, the sensory input is four Pac Man–like black figures. But ...

Most optical illusions last for a few fleeting moments when you're staring at the book, screen, or whatever medium the ...

Researchers investigate how mice process illusions, highlighting the neural circuitry involved in seeing and perception. An illusion is when we see and perceive an object that doesn’t match the ...

As you scroll through this article, your brain is hard at work creating the mental world you live in. You probably have a seamless sense that you’re embedded in a world full of other people, objects, ...

Hold a pencil upright in front of your face. Close one eye, look at the pencil, then open that eye, and close the other. Did you notice that your view of the pencil shifted slightly when you looked ...

Near-death experiences continue to challenge the scientific understanding of consciousness: how can vivid and structured ...

In certain diseases you have patterns of activity that emerge in your brain that are abnormal, and in schizophrenia these are related to object representations that pop up randomly” — Jerome Lecoq, Ph ...