We are used to the idea that perception can be ambiguous — there are visual illusions such as the famous Necker cube that can be perceived in two completely different ways. We accept that both ...

Optical illusions come in all forms, from simple tricks of the eye to complex geometric designs, but my personal favourites are the simple illusions that leave my brain well and truly frazzled. While ...

Sometimes, optical illusions are nothing more than interesting, with no real insight into you as a person. These visual perceptions can transform human faces into aliens, confuse you by simply turning ...

You need an idea. A solution. A creative new way to solve a challenging problem. But how likely is it that you’ll come up with that idea? A simple test might provide an indication of your level of ...

Psychologists have long been interested in how people interpret ambiguous, bistable images, such as the examples below. Bistable images. Top left: faces or a vase. Top right: rabbit or duck. Bottom ...

Optical illusions, quantum mechanics and neural networks might seem to be quite unrelated topics at first glance. However, in new research published in APL Machine Learning, I have used a phenomenon ...

One of the newly discovered tactile illusions is called “tactile rivalry”, a haptic version of a wider class of illusion called perceptual rivalry. The best example of perceptual rivalry is the Necker ...