Optical illusions are older than you think. The first optical illusions date back to 20,000 BC and took the form of cave sculptings. Nowadays they are found all over the place – on screens, in books ...

This image seems to mimic the effect of movement-based vision. Puzzle lovers are questioning their vision after gazing at this trippy moving portrait, which seemingly transforms into different objects ...

First place in this year’s Best Illusion of the Year Contest went to Matt Pritchard of the UK who used a mirror and a seemingly normal chessboard to create the illusion of a phantom white queen chess ...

Gideon Caplovitz, a professor in the Department of Psychology and the director of the Cognitive and Brain Sciences Graduate Program, recently discovered an illusion while creating shapes on the ...

This year marks the 16th edition of the Best Illusion of the Year Contest, hosted by the Neural Correlate Society since 2005. In the contest, cognitive scientists and visual artists from around the ...

A grayscale ballerina who appears to be moving. A human who can fit in a doll box. A black-and-white prism that appears to change shape when... Optical illusions are a brain feature, not a bug. Here's ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Nastynice1 via Reddit A supposedly 3D optical illusion has been posted online and is ...

A supposedly 3D optical illusion has been posted online and is possibly the most divisive I've ever seen on the optical illusion. Comments are either steadfastly denying any effect whatsoever, with ...

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If 2020 hadn’t already turned your brain into a barely functional pile of gray mush, the Best Illusion of the Year Contest has just the thing to push it over the edge. Every year a group of visual ...