BehaviorOctober 24, 2016
Air Rage as a Study in Contrasts
Air rage is more frequent in plane cabins that emphasize seating inequality
Stories by Susana Martinez-Conde
Susana Martinez-Conde is a professor of ophthalmology, neurology, and physiology and pharmacology at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, N.Y. She is author of the Prisma Prize–winning Sleights of Mind, along with Stephen Macknik and Sandra Blakeslee, and of Champions of Illusion, along with Stephen Macknik.
BehaviorOctober 1, 2016
Scientists Should Speak Out More
Engaging the public has long been taboo in scientific circles, but social media outlets are starting to force a change
CognitionSeptember 1, 2016
Discover the Science of School Yard Illusions
Childhood tricks can reveal a surprising amount about early cognition and the nervous system
BehaviorAugust 12, 2016
Child's Play
The misperception tricks that children play on one another
CognitionAugust 1, 2016
View Amazing Images That Seem to Move
Art and neuroscience combine to create fascinating examples of illusory motion
NeuroscienceAugust 1, 2016
Pain Is Controlled as Much by the Brain as by Sensation
Pain is an emotion
NeuroscienceAugust 1, 2016
The Visual Tricks of the Color Red
The facts and fictions of crimson perception
CultureAugust 1, 2016
Food for Thought: Visual Illusions Good Enough to Eat
Face or food? The brain recognizes edible artwork on multiple levels
NeuroscienceAugust 1, 2016
The Brain’s Face Recognition System Is Easy to Fool
The human brain is good at identifying faces, but illusions can fool our “face sense”
CognitionAugust 1, 2016
Aviator’s Dilemma: Pilots Encounter Illusions Everywhere
Military aviators learn to second-guess their senses
CultureAugust 1, 2016
How Artists Create Images That Fool the Eye
Trompe l'oeil illusions challenge your perception
CultureAugust 1, 2016
Sculpting the Impossible: Artists Make Solid Renditions of Visual Illusions
Artists find mind-bending ways to bring impossible figures into three-dimensional reality
CognitionAugust 1, 2016
The Brain Sees Faces Everywhere
When seeing is believing
NeuroscienceAugust 1, 2016
The Power of Afterimages in the Mind
Staring at images can temporarily reset retinal cells and cause ghostly visions
CognitionAugust 1, 2016
Is That Picture Looking at Me?
Eye gaze is critically important to social primates such as humans. Maybe that is why illusions involving eyes are so compelling
CognitionAugust 1, 2016
How Context Controls Perception of Size
Does size matter? To your brain, it doesn't
CognitionAugust 1, 2016
Fearsome Halloween-Themed Illusions
Spooky illusions trick and treat your brain
CognitionAugust 1, 2016
Straight Lines That Curve, Circles That Twist and Other Mind-Bending Illusions
Illusions that distort your perception
CognitionAugust 1, 2016
Images That Disappear and Reappear
Fading illusions play hide-and-seek with your perception
CognitionAugust 1, 2016
A Perspective on 3-D Visual Illusions
What the leaning tower and related illusions reveal about how your brain constructs 3-D images
CognitionAugust 1, 2016
Urban Illusions: Deceptions on Roads and around Corners
Street artists use the city as their canvas
CognitionAugust 1, 2016
The Illusions of Love
How do we fool thee? Let us count the ways that illusions play with our hearts and minds
CognitionAugust 1, 2016
Advertisers Play with Time for a Reason
Marketing illusions that make time fly
CognitionAugust 1, 2016
Clues to the Mind Emerge When Perception and Reality Conflict
You are more than a robot searching for food and mates