Culture
Food for Thought: Visual Illusions Good Enough to Eat
Face or food? The brain recognizes edible artwork on multiple levels
Stories by Stephen L. Macknik
Cognition
Aviator’s Dilemma: Pilots Encounter Illusions Everywhere
Military aviators learn to second-guess their senses
Cognition
Experience How Colors Play with Your Mind
Colors can change with their surroundings and spread beyond the lines
Cognition
Advertisers Play with Time for a Reason
Marketing illusions that make time fly
Neuroscience
The Power of Afterimages in the Mind
Staring at images can temporarily reset retinal cells and cause ghostly visions
Cognition
Images That Disappear and Reappear
Fading illusions play hide-and-seek with your perception
Cognition
Straight Lines That Curve, Circles That Twist and Other Mind-Bending Illusions
Illusions that distort your perception
Cognition
The Brain Sees Faces Everywhere
When seeing is believing
Cognition
How Context Controls Perception of Size
Does size matter? To your brain, it doesn't
Cognition
A Perspective on 3-D Visual Illusions
What the leaning tower and related illusions reveal about how your brain constructs 3-D images
Neuroscience
The Neuroscience of Illusion
How tricking the eye reveals the inner workings of the brain
Cognition
Clues to the Mind Emerge When Perception and Reality Conflict
You are more than a robot searching for food and mates
Behavior
A Review of 2016's Best Illusion of the Year Contest [Video]
Last week you chose the winners of the 12th annual Best Illusion of the Year Contest. Many of you have wondered how the illusions work, and what they tell us about our brains. I discuss each of the TOP 10 illusions here, and explain what we know...
Check Out the Best Illusion of the Year Contest Winners for 2016 ! [Video]
Congratulations to the winners of the 12th annual Best Illusion of the Year Contest, hosted by the Neural Correlate Society. Thousands of online voters around the world chose the best illusions of the year...
A New Look at Vision
A critical new discovery redefines the primary organizing principle of the visual cortex, and explains much of the illusory perception when we see light and dark stimuli
Cognition
How Magicians Trick Your Brain
They hijack its limited ability to deal with perceptual ambiguity
Mind & Brain
Meet the Animal Masters of Illusion
Humans are not the only species to use visual trickery to their advantage
Cognition
Aging Brings Big Changes in Visual Perception
Older people can struggle to see certain illusions, offering clues about the aging brain
Mind Magic--The Neuroscience of Magic
Don’t miss the new neuro-magic video at Scientific American, featuring the amazing Joshua Jay!
Mind & Brain
How Ghostbusting Became a Victorian Pastime
Nineteenth-century entertainment was a peculiar mix of technological innovation and supernatural thinking
