Optical illusions come in all forms, from simple tricks of the eye to complex geometric designs, but my personal favourites are the simple illusions that leave my brain well and truly frazzled. While ...

A Filipina teenager's optical illusion video on TikTok has fellow users trying to figure out how she performed the trick. The ...

Think you can name colours without getting confused? Well, this optical illusion challenge might just test how well your brain listens to your eyes! It looks simple—but don’t be too sure. An image ...

Optical illusions are not merely tricks or viral brain teasers, they reveal the curious disconnect between what we see and what our brain interprets. A flat drawing might come across as ...

In this Ebbinghaus illusion of relative size perception, the orange circle on the left looks bigger than the one on the right - but it is actually 10 per cent smaller. In a new study, medical imaging ...

Our eyes can frequently play tricks on us, but scientists have discovered that some artificial intelligence can fall for the same illusions. And it is changing what we know about our brains. When we ...

Martin Doherty received funding from the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust who partially supported this work. He continues to receive funding from the Leverhulme Trust. Radoslaw Wincza does not work ...

A deep neural network was trained using quantum tunneling to mimic the human ability to view optical illusions. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...