Optical illusions have fascinated scientists, psychologists, and artists for centuries because they reveal one simple truth ...

Shake your head and tell what do you see hidden in this optical illusion image. There is an animal obscured by these moving ...

A viral brain teaser challenges observers to find a hidden '23' amidst a sea of inverted '32s'. This illusion plays on ...

Psychologists have found that our visual perception can be contaminated by memories of what we have recently seen, impairing our ability to properly understand and act on what we are currently seeing.

A new study finds that the conscious perception of visual location occurs in the frontal lobes of the brain, rather than in the visual system in the back of the brain. The results are significant ...

Sounds can alter the way the brain interprets what it sees. This is the key finding of a new study by SISSA researchers in ...

For a translator to turn one language (say, English) into another (say, Greek), she has to be able to understand both languages and what common meanings they point to, because English is not very ...