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If you have never seen an optical illusion, it is an image that makes you see things differently than they actually are. Optical illusions trick your eyes into believing you see something that is not ...

A study of mice starts to unravel how the brain gets tricked by this kind of optical illusion, and it gives clues about how visual perception works. Optical illusions play on the brain's biases, ...