In 2006, researchers Peter Tse and Po-Jang Hsieh at Dartmouth College reported a striking new illusion, the infinite regress illusion, that went on to wow audiences at the Illusion of the Year Contest ...

Deep neural networks (DNNs), which have been developed with reference to the network structures and the operational algorithms of the brain, have achieved notable success in a broad range of fields, ...

Neuroscientists at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center have discovered a direct link between eye motions and the perception of illusory motion that solves a ...

This is the fifth article in the Mind Matters series on the neuroscience behind visual illusions. Scientists did not invent the vast majority of visual illusions. Rather, they are the work of visual ...

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.

Ever had that strange feeling, sitting on a train, where you see another train moving and you think that you are in motion instead? There’s an actual term for that feeling. And you need just the ...

Scientists did not invent the vast majority of visual illusions. Rather they are the products of artists who have used their insights into the workings of the human eyes and brain to create illusions ...