Science is Cool: Optical Illusions Explained

Image from source, Live Science

Thanks to Stupid Monkey Planet for the link to this fascinating story. Now, if we could only see a little longer into the future, we really might have something. . .

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Key to All Optical Illusions Discovered

Humans can see into the future, says a cognitive scientist. It's nothing like the alleged predictive powers of Nostradamus, but we do get a glimpse of events one-tenth of a second before they occur.

And the mechanism behind that can also explain why we are tricked by optical illusions. . .

Read more at: Live Science