A Filipina teenager's optical illusion video on TikTok has fellow users trying to figure out how she performed the trick. The 19-year-old girl, who goes by Tori Pareno on the popular social media ...

They break down the neuroscience behind how your brain filters reality through past experience, what it means for everything ...

Illusions teach us how our brain constructs a three-dimensional reality using 2-D images. Optical illusions are fun, but they can also teach us a lot about how our brains work. In particular, how our ...

This video demonstrates how simple rubber bands can create moments of real astonishment by exploiting perception and timing.

Join Josh, Gabbie, and Oli from the Jolly series as they react to mind-bending optical illusions and visual puzzles! Watch ...

An optical illusion video left thousands of people baffled – but can you figure out what’s going on? Adeline, who shares “surprising, unusual and weird art” on her Tiktok page, shared the optical ...

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Is it a bird? Or is it a bunny? That's the question sparked by a video that's gone viral. The clip shows a bird, with its beak in the air, and a human stroking its head. But looked at from a different ...

The video from @HecticNick shows a pyramid with a black dot near its apex -- and demonstrates the weird delay between what we see and what's really there. TikTok/ @hecticnick An optical illusion video ...

I love love love optical illusions, and it’s been a while since I posted one. So here’s one of the greatest and most brain-eatingly pernicious illusions of them all… and this time, via my friend ...

I love optical illusions, and I’m fascinated by the mechanics of vision, so I have to share with you this video. This technique of animation has been known for a long time, but it’s still pretty cool.

Experimental psychologists have created a mind-blowing illusion that shows how human senses can influence one another and play tricks on the brain. Researchers at the California Institute of ...