Artist Mimi Choi doesn’t use makeup just to enhance beauty. Instead, she uses it to completely challenge the way we see. Through clever shadows, perspective tricks, and a huge dose of imagination, she ...

A magician reveals his visual tricks ...

Most people use the terms “optical illusion” and “visual illusion” interchangeably, much like “fluid” and “liquid” or “sofa” and “couch” are synonyms. At first glance, this might be seemingly pedantic ...

Optical illusions are older than you think. The first optical illusions date back to 20,000 BC and took the form of cave sculptings. Nowadays they are found all over the place – on screens, in books ...

Medical imaging experts are adept at solving common optical illusions, according to new research. The research is the first to show that people can be trained to do better at solving visual illusions, ...

Optical illusions demonstrate how the brain interprets visual information. This short video presents a simple illusion experiment. Viewers can test how their perception reacts to the effect. The ...

How optical illusions work has been long-debated among scientists and philosophers, who wonder whether these illusions stem from neural processing in the eye or involve higher-level cognitive ...

The human mind is one of the most magnificent creations ever made. It performs magical feats and is a complex "machine" that scientists and psychologists are constantly trying to figure out. When it ...

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