From shifting colours to phantom rays, these five challenges reveal how easily your mind can be fooled by light, contrast, ...

Our pick of the best optical illusions of all time will leave you amazed and confused in equal measure. Optical illusions come in many forms, from horses and tigers to moving shapes and floating ships ...

Curious images known as optical illusions prove seeing isn't always believing. Oct. 13, 2009— -- Look at an optical illusion and you may think you're seeing things -- such as a curved line ...

This illusion – named Pinna's Illusory Intertwining Effect – first appeared in Shifts of Edges and Deformations of Patterns written by Baingio Pinna and Richard L Gregory, an academic journal ...

This iconic optical illusion actually tells you what kind of brain you have, and I genuinely never knew. Georgia Coggan. Sun, June 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM UTC. 2 min read.

Study finds some experts can outsmart optical illusions 02:09. New York — At the Museum of Illusions in New York City, around every corner is a wonder for the eyes. There's a vase that's a face ...

The Best Illusion of the Year contest offers researchers, and participants, an opportunity to explore the gaps and limits of human perception. ... How Two Neuroscientists View Optical Illusions.