Researchers identified neurons in the mouse primary visual cortex that encode illusions that receive information from higher ...

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 ...

In 350 BC, Aristotle reported seeing illusory movement after staring at a constantly moving stimulus. Later coined the "waterfall illusion," scientists are still investigating the properties of motion ...

Our brain and eyes can play tricks on us—not least when it comes to the expanding hole illusion. A new computational model developed by Flinders University experts helps to explain how cells in the ...