So I've read in more than a few places that color doesn't exist outside our heads, it's just wavelengths of light. That our brains are the things that make color, same with sound (which is just ...

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Before jumping on in we have one question on our minds: what is an optical illusion? Optical illusions are visuals that tend to be deceptive to the eye and brain. This is based on numerous factors ...

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 ...

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A color illusion that strongly induces color contrast effect has been found by a research team at the Toyohashi University of Technology Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and Electronics ...

How many purple dots do you see in the image above? Are they all the same hue? This new optical illusion, developed by biomedical optics engineer Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt, is more revealing than you ...

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When The Dress went viral in 2015—driving tens of millions of online onlookers into existential conniptions over whether the garment was blue and black or white and gold—it didn't just break the ...