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You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Optical illusions often go viral on social media, but they've been around long before Twitter. From ...

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A new optical illusion, shared by TikTok creator Mia Yilin, has gone viral across social media. According to a video posted by Yilin, this viral image claims to identify whether a person is a deep ...

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 ...

Cognitive illusions are assumed to arise by interaction with assumptions about the world, leading to "unconscious inferences", an idea first suggested in the 19th century by Hermann Helmholtz.