Our eyes can frequently play tricks on us, but scientists have discovered that some artificial intelligence can fall for the ...

There were some discrepancies between how the AI saw the illusion, though. While humans can 'freeze' any specific circle by ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Illusions like these mess with the brain's visual processing system, making viewers see things ...

Challenge your brain with this viral motion optical illusion that tests binocular vision and observation skills.

Check out some of these optical illusions, below — and see how you perceive images placed before your eyes. Just how do optical illusions work? "From an evolutionary standpoint, optical illusion is ...

You look at an image of a black circle on a grid of circular dots. It resembles a hole burned into a piece of white mesh material, although it’s actually a flat, stationary image on a screen or piece ...

Our brains create false perceptions through these illusions, which make us see things that do not exist while they distort ...

Visual perception of motion and its accompanying illusions has long fascinated neuroscientists and psychologists alike. This research field examines how the brain compensates for inherent neural ...

Puzzle lovers are frazzling their noodles over this physics-defying optical illusion, in which stationery cubes appear to be spinning. The trick first went viral on Twitter in 2020 — whereupon it ...

Visual illusions of motion are a major source of interest in the vision research community. Explaining how a still image can produce an illusory perception of motion is important for a more complete ...