The Mother City is poised to enhance its already vibrant cultural landscape with the much-anticipated opening of the Museum of Illusions on Kloof Street. Officially launching on Saturday, 31 May ...

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So when someone told me about an illusion museum in London, I was surprised by my unawareness of its existence. Underneath Oxford Street in one of London’s most popular districts, the Twisted ...

According to many users, the images generated in response to this request manage to create a brain sensation of smell, a kind of real sensory illusion, as if the food is right in front of them.

The study sheds fascinating insight into the way the brain’s integration of visual and sensory information can be manipulated to alleviate pain. Another reason the illusion is so successful may ...

Inter-sensory illusions are a dramatic case of inter-sensory processing. For example, in the McGurk effect (McGurk & MacDonald, 1976), an inter-sensory illusion involving vision and audition ...

Unlike magic, which mostly relies on sleight of hand and misdirection, an illusion deceives our senses. Illusions make us think we something that isn’t there or see something differently than it is.

One recurring theme with illusions is the way that many seem to manifest when there’s a misalignment between the information the brain expects from the senses, and the information that it ...

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The kind of gimmicky optical illusions featured in children’s science ... but we all encounter them throughout the day in other sensory systems and in such highly assimilated ways that we ...