Articles for tag: brain perception, cognitive psychology, neuroscience insights, optical illusions, visual processing

10 Mind-Bending Optical Illusions That Reveal How Our Brains Work

10 Mind-Bending Optical Illusions That Reveal How Our Brains Work

Andrew Alpin

Have you ever stared at an image and felt your brain twist into a knot trying to make sense of what you’re seeing? Optical illusions aren’t just party tricks or internet curiosities. They’re windows into one of the most complex systems in the known universe: your brain. When you experience an optical illusion, you’re witnessing ...

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The Science Behind Why We Experience Déjà Vu

Suhail Ahmed

It arrives like a whisper: you step into a hallway you’ve never seen and somehow everything feels uncannily familiar. Déjà vu is at once ordinary and eerie, a brief shiver in our sense of reality that most of us recognize but few can explain. For decades, scientists treated it as a curiosity; today, it’s a ...