Do people spontaneously form visual mental images when understanding language, and if so, how truly visual are these representations? We test whether processing linguistic descriptions of motion ...

In this study, we show that the contingent auditory motion aftereffect is strongly influenced by visual motion information. During an induction phase, participants listened to rightward-moving sounds ...

The motion aftereffect, sometimes referred to as the "waterfall illusion," is one of the oldest visual illusions ever discovered, dating as far back as Aristotle. When we are exposed to a continuously ...

In the classic waterfall illusion, if you stare at the downward motion of a waterfall for some period of time, stationary objects -- such as rocks -- appear to drift upward. Neuroscientists have found ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. The Motion Aftereffect is an optical illusion in which stationary objects appear to be in motion if a person has just been looking at a moving ...

Can you elaborate on your topic of research and why you work with the model organism zebrafish? Inside the brain, there are many neurons that process motion and its direction. As these neurons are ...

Humans are fascinated by visual illusions, which occur when there is a mismatch between the pattern of light that falls on the retina, and what we perceive. Before books, films, and the internet ...

Lately, I’ve been thinking a bit about the “Haunted Painting Effect.” That’s my own name for a certain kind of optical illusion that periodically surfaces online. The most commonly circulated examples ...

Intrigued by an optical illusion he experienced while traveling in Scotland, Robert Addams wrote what is now considered one of the definitive observational accounts of so-called motion aftereffects. A ...

Scientists have come up with new insight into the brain processes that cause the following optical illusion: Focus your eyes directly on the "X" in the center of the ...