This color illusion works by exploiting how your visual system handles color memory — stare at an image long enough and your ...

Recently, a new optical illusion sent the internet into a tizzy. In this, a group of elephants were arranged in a circle. While on first look, they all looked to be blue-purple in color (or rather ...

Sometimes your eyes can be a little too quick to judge. The mind loves to make sense of what it sees, even when the picture in front of you isn’t what it seems. A trick of the light, a lucky angle, or ...

Optical illusions are great fun, and they fool virtually everyone. But have you ever wondered if you could train yourself to unsee these illusions? Our latest research suggests that you can. Optical ...

Perception researchers have long known about the structural and functional features that differentiate our central vision from our peripheral vision. The central (or foveal) region of our retinas are ...