Featuring a blurry image of abstract yellows, oranges, purples and blues, this optical illusion appears pretty plain. It's ...

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If you are a big optical illusion aficionado and think you have seen it all, it's time to reconsider. Because this optical illusion is not just puzzling for the brain, but also tricks human reflexes ...

Psychologists used illusions that mimic darkness and sunlight to see how viewers’ eyes reacted. Most people experienced the sense of movement into darkness and their pupils dilated. Their pupils ...

Face it — your eyes are playing tricks on you. Dr. Dean Jackson, a biologist and BBC presenter, shared a puzzling image on TikTok of an alleged optical illusion, claiming it contained a creepy, hidden ...

The optical illusion seen above makes the viewer feel as if they are falling into an expanding hole – and now we have a good explanation for why this happens. Optical tricks can be caused by different ...

A head-scratching optical illusion challenges the perception of color and how the brain plays tricks on us. In an image created by the UK contact lens vendor Lenstore, a series of lilac letters ...

A study of mice starts to unravel how the brain gets tricked by this kind of optical illusion, and it gives clues about how visual perception works. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. The French street artist JR has unveiled perhaps his most complex Italian trompe l’oeil ...

The French street artist JR has unveiled perhaps his most complex Italian trompe l’oeil illusion piece yet, turning a square outside Milan’s Stazione Centrale railway station into a temporary ...