The Neuroscience of Illusion
How tricking the eye reveals the inner workings of the brain
Features
A Perspective on 3-D Visual Illusions
What the leaning tower and related illusions reveal about how your brain constructs 3-D images
All Deceptions Great and Small
Does size matter? To your brain, it doesn't
A Faithful Resemblance
When seeing is believing
Your Twisted Little Mind
Illusions that distort your perception
Vanished without a Trace
Fading illusions play hide-and-seek with your perception
Yorick's Ghost and Other Afterimages
Staring at images can temporarily reset retinal cells and cause ghostly visions
Colors Out of Space
Colors can change with their surroundings and spread beyond the lines
The Aviator's Dilemma
Military aviators learn to second-guess their senses
Afraid of Shadows
Spooky illusions trick and treat your brain
No Brain, No Pain
Pain is an emotion
What's In a Face?
The human brain is good at identifying faces, but illusions can fool our “face sense”
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
The Illusions of Love
How do we fool thee?
Let us count the ways that illusions play with our hearts and minds
Art as Visual Research: Kinetic Illusions in OP Art
Art and neuroscience combine to create fascinating examples of illusory motion
Sculpting the Impossible: Solid Renditions of Visual Illusions
Artists find mind-bending ways to bring impossible figures into three-dimensional reality
Truer Than Truth
Trompe l'oeil illusions challenge your perception
Urban Illusions
Street artists use the city as their canvas
Perfectly Timed Advertising
Marketing illusions that make time fly
Food for Thought: Visual Illusions Good Enough to Eat
Face or food? The brain recognizes edible artwork on multiple levels
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