Dive into the fascinating world of optical illusions that will leave you questioning reality! These amazing visual tricks can ...

This video uses a blue eye color illusion to make viewers stare at the center of the screen. The setup claims that the image ...

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Shading brings 3D forms to life, beautifully carving out the shape of objects around us. Despite the importance of shading for perception, scientists have long been puzzled about how the brain ...

New research shows that expectations strongly shape how we perceive sweetness — people often believe they’re tasting real sugar when told they are, even if the drink contains artificial sweetener.

Sounds can alter the way the brain interprets what it sees. This is the key finding of a new study by SISSA researchers in Trieste, published in PLOS Computational Biology. The research shows that, ...

In a massive scientific effort, hundreds of researchers have helped to map the connections between hundreds of thousands of neurons in the mouse brain and then overlayed their firing patterns in ...

Why does the brain split visual spatial perception between its hemispheres? A new review by neuroscientists examines the advantages and trade-offs, and how the brain ultimately makes vision feel ...

How does Jannik Sinner manage to hit the ball at exactly the right moment, with remarkable precision? And how do we, in everyday life, perceive the duration of events around us? The answer lies in how ...