SA Special Editions

How tricking the eye reveals the inner workings of the brain

What the leaning tower and related illusions reveal about how your brain constructs 3-D images

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

When seeing is believing

Illusions that distort your perception

Fading illusions play hide-and-seek with your perception

Staring at images can temporarily reset retinal cells and cause ghostly visions

Colors can change with their surroundings and spread beyond the lines

Military aviators learn to second-guess their senses

Spooky illusions trick and treat your brain

Pain is an emotion

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

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

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

Art and neuroscience combine to create fascinating examples of illusory motion

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

Trompe l'oeil illusions challenge your perception

Street artists use the city as their canvas

Marketing illusions that make time fly

Face or food? The brain recognizes edible artwork on multiple levels