Fruit flies presented with stationary patterns perceive illusory motion, similar to humans, and the effect is mediated by motion-detecting neurons in the brain, a study finds. Certain stationary ...

Deep neural networks (DNNs), which have been developed with reference to the network structures and the operational algorithms of the brain, have achieved notable success in a broad range of fields, ...

In 350 BC, Aristotle reported seeing illusory movement after staring at a constantly moving stimulus. Later coined the "waterfall illusion," scientists are still investigating the properties of motion ...

Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Osaka Institute of Technology, 1-79-1 Kitayama, Hirakata City, Osaka, 573-0196 Japan Previous studies suggested that eye movements might be one of the ...

This is the fifth article in the Mind Matters series on the neuroscience behind visual illusions. Scientists did not invent the vast majority of visual illusions. Rather, they are the work of visual ...