How Visual Illusions Make Your Brain Flip

How Visual Illusions Make Your Brain Flip. Interesting research on trying to identify the region of the brain which causes you to switch between two ways of viewing certain optical illusion. The study points to the superior parietal lobe being involved, but I found the study method even more interesting than the results. Check out […]

Best Visual Illusion 2010

Check out this visual illusion, winner of this year’s Best Illusion contest. What’s amazing to me is that it’s a real, 3-dimensional object that someone built, not just an animation or picture. The tricks the mind plays are quite fascinating 🙂 See all 10 finalists, as well as brief explanations of each illusion. [Best Illusion […]

Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena

Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena. A great collection of optical illusions by Michael Bach. What’s great is that he actually explains why it happens, and you get to play around with the animations and see how that affects the illusion. Saw this first on  Carl Zimmer’s blog where he points to a particularly trippy optical […]