In our lifetimes, we encounter hundreds of thousands of faces. Each person's unique exposure to faces largely determines their "face space"—a model of how we encode, perceive, and remember the faces ...

There are many ways that our eyes can play tricks on us. The flashed face distortion effect can turn a good-looking person into an alien, while staring at pictures containing lines and shapes can ...

Dozens of newly discovered optical illusions competed for the title of "Best Illusion of 2012" last week at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society in Florida. An illusion known as the ...