Humans have an exquisite sense of vision. It’s the primary sense for most of us and our making way of interacting with the world around us.  We process the massive amount of visual data generated by sight using trillions of interconnections between billions of neurons spread across half our cerebral cortex.  Despite this, our visual system falls prey to illusions, constructing ambiguous interpretations and objects that can’t or don’t exist.  How do these illusions work and why do they succeed in fooling us even when we know about them? Continue reading →