Focus on the red cross while the dots are moving around. You're probably seeing the dots wriggling around in different directions. But in reality they’re moving in straight trajectories without ever ...

If dots on a screen are surrounded by certain types of moving pattern, fixing your eyes on one of the dots can make the others disappear. This illusion, called motion-induced blindness, was discovered ...

The latest viral optical illusion features dots jumping around on a gray grid, and it's driving our brains crazy. But despite how it looks, those dots are not moving at all. Your brain just interprets ...

Catherine Manning receives funding from the Wellcome Trust. Gaia Scerif receives funding from the Nuffield Foundation and the British Academy. Gaia is a Trustee of the Fragile X Society. Around one in ...