A linguistic illusion is a phenomenon in which your judgment or understanding of a sentence or phrase conflicts with its actual meaning or structure. Like optical illusions, they reveal a little ...

Jean-Paul Sartre, for instance, says that the moment we realize we are not immortal, we see the meaning of life as an illusion. This problem, what we may call the Big problem of the meaning of ...

Optical illusions play tricks on your brain and can make you see things that aren't really there, from static images swirling around the page to images that stay with you even after you look away.

Batty argued that illusions arise from misidentification or misinterpretation of specific objects—and thus, “if olfactory experience doesn’t give us objects at all, then, by definition, it ...

"This throws into the air a lot of long-held assumptions about how visual illusions work," Dr Troscianko said. He said the findings also shed light on the popularity of high-definition televisions.

The researchers found that larger models, meaning those developed with more weights and variables that determine a response, were more closely aligned with human responses to optical illusions ...