Weirder than weird. Stranger than strange. You win if these pics don't make you go 'hmmm' and ask, 'What the heck?!' ...

Most intriguingly, psychologists in the 1960s had apparently discovered something remarkable about the illusion: only European and American urbanites fell for the trick. The illusion worked less well, ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...

New artificial intelligence-generated images that appear to be one thing, but something else entirely when rotated, are helping scientists test the human mind. The work by Johns Hopkins University ...

Whether we’re staring at our phones, the page of a book, or the person across the table, the objects of our focus never stand in isolation; there are always other objects or people in our field of ...

In the fast-paced world of digital distractions, a new kind of viral phenomenon has taken over our social feeds: the high-stakes visual perception challenge. As a long-time observer of how our brains ...

Scientists have found our visual perception dips as our feet hit the ground. Further understanding this could help develop early diagnostics for neuromuscular or psychiatric illness; understand ...

The human visual system excels in interpreting complex visual scenes, with symmetry perception playing a pivotal role in organising sensory input into coherent representations. Visual symmetry ...

Images generated by photographic computer software are the first to depict accurate images of facial distortions experienced by patients with prosopometamorphopsia (PMO), a rare visual disorder that ...

Cortical blindness occurs when a person loses their visual perception due to damage to certain areas of the brain. The eyes work as usual, but the brain cannot process visual information. The damage ...

In the 1860s, physician Hermann von Helmholtz did a simple experiment to understand how the world stays still during eye movements. With a still head, he closed one eye and swiveled the other to look ...