Volunteers were asked to try to rotate two balls around each other on their hands under two different learning conditions. Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University showed that ...

The results of a contest to name the Best Illusions of the Year have been announced, with some rather impressive contributions from visual scientists, ophthalmologists, neurologists, and artists ...

The mysteries of human perception are endlessly fascinating, and a good optical illusion is a brilliant reminder of how our brains can be so easily fooled. For over a decade the Neural Correlate ...

THERE is a well-known visual illusion in which a vertical line is judged as longer than a horizontal line of the same length. The illusion also holds, though attenuated, when lines are perceived ...

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 ...