Psychologists have long been interested in how people interpret ambiguous, bistable images, such as the examples below. Bistable images. Top left: faces or a vase. Top right: rabbit or duck. Bottom ...

Sometimes, optical illusions are nothing more than interesting, with no real insight into you as a person. These visual perceptions can transform human faces into aliens, confuse you by simply turning ...

We are used to the idea that perception can be ambiguous — there are visual illusions such as the famous Necker cube that can be perceived in two completely different ways. We accept that both ...

You need an idea. A solution. A creative new way to solve a challenging problem. But how likely is it that you’ll come up with that idea? A simple test might provide an indication of your level of ...

One of the newly discovered tactile illusions is called “tactile rivalry”, a haptic version of a wider class of illusion called perceptual rivalry. The best example of perceptual rivalry is the Necker ...