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• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Advertisers Exploit Time Illusions to Sell Products

  Marketing illusions that make time fly

  By Stephen L. Macknik , Leandro Luigi Di Stasi and Susana Martinez-Conde   | May 16, 2013  | 3

• Scientific American Mind |  More Science

  Artists Play With Light and Shadows to Trick the Eye

  Trompe l'oeil illusions challenge your perception

  By Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik   | Apr 1, 2013  | 2

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Visual Errors Twist and Tickle the Mind

  Illusions that distort your perception

  By Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde   | Jan 30, 2013  

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Illusions Reign Supreme on Halloween

  Spooky illusions trick and treat your brain

  By Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde   | Oct 30, 2012  | 1

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Illusory Faces Peer Out of Unlikely Places

  When seeing is believing

  By Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik   | Sep 10, 2012  | 9

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Size Illusions Trick the Brain

  Does size matter? To your brain, it doesn't

  By Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde   | Jul 21, 2012  | 17

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Aviator's Dilemma: Pilots Encounter Illusions Everywhere

  Military aviators learn to second-guess their senses

  By Stephen L. Macknik , Susana Martinez-Conde and Ellis C. Gayles   | Jun 4, 2012  | 7

• Scientific American Mind |  More Science

  Urban Illusions

  Street artists use the city as their canvas

  By Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik   | Apr 7, 2012  

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Illusions Unmask Our "Face Sense"

  The human brain is good at identifying faces, but illusions can fool our "face sense"

  By Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik   | Jan 10, 2012  

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Sculpting the Impossible: Solid Renditions of Visual Illusions

  Artists find mind-bending ways to bring impossible figures into three-dimensional reality

  By Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde   | Nov 22, 2011  

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  The Eyes Have It

  Eye gaze is critically important to social primates such as humans. Maybe that is why illusions involving eyes are so compelling

  By Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik   | Sep 13, 2011  | 3

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Reflections on the Mind

  Experiments with a simple mirror setup can reveal much about the workings of the brain

  By Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran   | Aug 18, 2011  | 3

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Colors Out of Space [Slide Show]

  Colors can change with their surroundings and spread beyond the lines

  By Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde   | Apr 21, 2011  | 12

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  The Ghost Hand Illusion

  Spooky fun with afterimages

  By Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran   | Mar 14, 2011  | 2

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  The Illusions of Love

  How do we fool thee? Let us count the ways that illusions play with our hearts and minds

  By Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde   | Feb 14, 2011  | 2

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Hungry for Meaning: Why Tofu Burgers Taste Better than You'd Expect

  The brain recognizes food-based illusions on multiple levels

  By Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik   | Nov 9, 2010  | 12

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Reading between the Lines: How We See Hidden Objects

  When an object is partially hidden, the brain deftly reconstructs it as a visual whole

  By Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran   | Aug 30, 2010  | 3

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Extreme Function: Why Our Brains Respond So Intensely to Exaggerated Characteristics

  How quirks of perception drive the evolution of species

  By Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran   | Aug 2, 2010  | 3

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Hey, Is That Me over There?

  And other real-life tales from the bizarre realm of out-of-body experience

  By Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran   | Apr 13, 2010  | 16

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Aristotle's Error

  Using aftereffects to probe visual function reveals how the eye and brain handle colors and contours

  By Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran   | Mar 15, 2010  | 9

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  A Moving Experience: Illusions That Trick the Brain

  How the eyes can see movement where it does not exist

  By Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran   | Jan 26, 2010  | 14

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Illusions: The Mona Lisa and Abraham Lincoln

  What do the famous portrait and the former U.S. president have in common?

  By Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran   | Dec 10, 2009  | 7

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Two Eyes, Two Views: Your Brain and Depth Perception

  Insights into the nuances of depth perception provided by our two eyes' slightly different views of the world

  By Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran   | Oct 21, 2009  | 3

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Seeing in Stereo: Illusions of Depth

  Binocular vision gives us depth perception—and enables us to play some tricks

  By Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran   | Aug 14, 2009  | 12

• Scientific American Mind |  Mind & Brain

  Illusions in Motion: The Power of Symmetry

  Our brain's preference for symmetry influences how we perceive motion

  By Vilaynur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran   | Apr 30, 2009  | 3

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