This illusion is due to “motion binding.” This is where you see two or more sets of objects moving, and our brains let the motion of one set influence how we perceive the motion of the other.

And because the slits are evenly spaced, the motion repeats as the next slit in line moves over the same part of the drawing behind it. Your brain sees a cyclical animation, even though the ...

The overall winner of Best Illusion of the Year was The Static Spin by Saleeta Qadir and Bernhard Egger of Germany. The ...

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Motion and Illusion Hungarian artist Dóra Maurer has been a dissident and an innovator. By Emily Ferguson July 11, 2019 11:41 am ET ...

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.

This illusion highlights a quirk of perception that can be interpreted as a feature, a bug, or both. On one hand, it seems like a defect to have something directly in your field of view disappear ...

This visual illusion has been recognized for a very long time; Aristotle first noted it. Now, a new study has found that even a very brief glimpse of motion — for as little as 1/40 of a second ...

Now, a new study has found that even a very brief glimpse of motion — for as little as 1/40 of a second — can trigger the brain mechanism responsible for the illusion. Advertisement Advertisement ...