Here we provide a set of powerful colour, motion and shape illusions created in-house. Much of our research is centred on understanding how and why we see illusions.
To understand how we see correctly we need to understand why it seems we sometimes incorrectly. Illusions, therefore, are critical windows into the mind. What they tell us is that the mind didn’t evolve to see the world ‘as it is’, but to see the world in a way that proved useful to see in the past. In short, the brain evolved to continually redefine normality by finding the relationships that were useful in our evolution and development (including social and culture development).
Please feel free to use these images for teaching purposes (with proper accreditation).