Our eyes can frequently play tricks on us, but scientists have discovered that some artificial intelligence can fall for the ...

Optical illusions are more than visual tricks — they expose how the human brain interprets reality. In certain cases, the ...

A grayscale ballerina who appears to be moving. A human who can fit in a doll box. A black-and-white prism which appear to change shape when viewed from three different directions. Those are the top ...

In 1906, biologists Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that illuminated the physical structures of the human brain. Working ...

Allen Institute researcher Jerome Lecoq points to one of the diagrams that was used in a study focusing on how the brain interprets optical illusions. (Allen Institute Photo / Erik Dinnel) Our brains ...

Optical illusions may make you feel like a fool, but you could be able to train your brain to resist them. “It is very likely that people from the general population have the capacity to be trained to ...

And that could mean the rotating snakes illusion is finally explained.

Researchers investigate how mice process illusions, highlighting the neural circuitry involved in seeing and perception. An illusion is when we see and perceive an object that doesn’t match the ...

The human brain draws its conclusions and perceives the world around it not only on the basis of the data it receives, but ...