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 ...

Researchers shot lasers into brain cells and triggered illusions on demand—a breakthrough that’s rewriting how we see the ...

A Nature Neuroscience study finds that special "illusion-encoding" neurons in the brain's visual cortex fill in missing ...

Get ready to have your brain twisted by some mind-bending optical illusions! One of the wildest is the Thatcher Effect, or Thatcher Illusion—it’s when an upside-down face looks normal, but flip it ...

Having a distorted perspective is normal during a dream, and the Museum of Illusions in Kansas City can turn that dream into a reality. The museum in Union Station is an interactive space with ...

If you are someone who enjoys solving complex visual puzzles, then take this challenge. The fox might be camouflaging very ...

Every day, we use our brain to solve problems, think before we act, and interpret the complex world around us. The nonstop biological activities in the various parts of our brain allow us to see color ...

Even computers can get tricked by optical illusions, a new study finds. Such research may help shed light on how vision works in the brain, and lead to better computer recognition of images, ...

Reddit users were left baffled after a photo of a floral-patterned couch went viral, challenging them to find a lighter hidden in plain sight.

This brain-frazzling optical illusion is enough to put your head into a spin. The purple-and-yellow image looks as though it’s both three-dimensional and moving but is in fact stationary and flat.

Optical illusions play tricks on your brain and can make you see things that aren't really there, from static images swirling around the page to images that stay with you even after you look away.