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.

Optical illusions are not merely tricks or viral brain teasers, they reveal the curious disconnect between what we see and what our brain interprets. A flat drawing might come across as ...

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 ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Online. Followed categories will be added to My News. If you concentrate on the dot on the below image for long enough an astonishing thing will happen. After ...

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Researchers have found a way to trick Google’s AI into completely mis-identifying real-world objects. They managed to make InceptionV3, an image classifier, think a 3D-printed turtle was actually a ...

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If you concentrate on the dot on the below image for long enough an astonishing thing will happen. After about 30 seconds the swirls of colour will disappear entirely. According to The Sun, it’s an ...