This brain-frazzling optical illusion is enough to put your head into a spin. The purple-and-yellow image looks as though it’s both three-dimensional and moving but is in fact stationary and flat.

SALT LAKE CITY — Visitors step into the world of mind-bending illusions and deceptive tricks of the mind at the Museum of Illusions. The museum of mind tricks just opened up this weekend in Salt Lake ...

Artists and scientists have been creating optical illusions for centuries. Here are 35 mind-bending examples that prove you can't always trust what your eyes are telling you. When you purchase through ...

Optical illusions have long fascinated scientists, artists, and everyday viewers. These visual puzzles can make stationary objects appear to move, straight lines look bent, or colours seem to change ...

Dozens of newly discovered optical illusions competed for the title of "Best Illusion of 2012" last week at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society in Florida. An illusion known as the ...

This spooky season, the Museum of Illusions Philadelphia is offering both tricks and treats, as it transforms with eerie decor and gives out free candy to guests. The optical illusion museum, located ...

Even computers can get tricked by optical illusions, a new study finds. Such research may help shed light on how vision works in the brain, and lead to better computer recognition of images, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio --Visitors will not believe their eyes when they walk through Cleveland’s new Museum of Illusions at 186 Euclid Avenue (The May Building). And they shouldn’t. The museum, which opens ...

Before jumping on in we have one question on our minds: what is an optical illusion? Optical illusions are visuals that tend to be deceptive to the eye and brain. This is based on numerous factors ...

A study on the illusion titled "The Eye Pupil Adjusts to Illusorily Expanding Holes" has been published in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. For 86% of people, looking at the central black ...