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Jan 6, 2017 · Blind Spot: This is where your nerves and blood vessels connect to your eye, so you don’t have cells there to process what you’re seeing. You can’t perceive anything that is in this spot.
May 27, 2024 · The physiological mechanisms behind why the human brain fills in blind spots like this are unclear, according to The Illusions Index. This is an example of the Ehrenstein illusion.
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Oct 2, 2023 · Optical illusions are driven by hidden imagery that can sometimes seem confusing. Learn about the trick it plays on your brain.
Dec 6, 2023 · One is that rapid eye movements between fixation points — called saccades — can sometimes trick the brain into falsely perceiving movement. Another theory is that your brain constantly tries to make connections and predictions.
Jun 22, 2020 · Actually, it’s not. It’s moving up and down in a straight, vertical line. See for yourself. Trace it with your finger. This is a visual illusion. That alternating black-white patch inside the...
Jan 30, 2015 · One theory is that the arrows on either end of the line in the Muller-Lyer illusion trick the mind into thinking it is looking at a similar 3D scene – for example, the arrows on the middle line...
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Sometimes your eyes see things that your brain doesn’t understand. These are optical illusions – pictures that play tricks on your eyes and confuse your brain. Besides being fun, optical illusions help us to better understand vision and demonstrate how closely our eyes and brain work together.
