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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, quantum mechanics and neural networks might seem to be quite unrelated topics at first glance. However, in new research I have used a phenomenon called “quantum tunnelling” to ...

Hugh D Reynolds reviews The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes by Donald D Hoffman Now you see it: For Donald D Hoffman, the humble tomato is not a round red object, but a ...

The twenty screens that follow will prepare you for classroom discussion of the advocacy skills and associated ethical questions of working with facts.They are organized as follows: Section 1 - The ...