Highlights•Urban exposure changes the information processing style of human beings.•It
affects the deployment of mental processing resources and eye movements.•Change is …

We present an approach to alter the perceived appearance of physical objects by controlling
their surrounding space. Many real-world objects cannot easily be equipped with displays or …

The Ebbinghaus illusion, in which a central target surrounded by larger context figures looks
smaller than when surrounded by smaller context figures, is usually classified as a size …

Two versions of the flash grab illusion were used to examine the relative contributions of
motion before and motion after the test flash to the illusory position shift. The stimulus in the …

As the characteristics of the visual system we have today are outcomes of our evolutionary
history and our ancestors' adaptation to their environment, comparing susceptibility to …

Do visual illusions reliably improve sports performance? To address this issue, we used
procedures inspired by Witt et al.(Psychol Sci 23: 397–399, 2012) seminal study, which …

Optical illusions have been brought into recent video games to enhance gaming
experiences. However, a large corpus of optical illusions remains unused, while few games …

Interacting with objects in our environment requires accurate neural representations of their
physical size. Representation of an object's size requires the integration of on object's retinal …

Perceived size is a function of viewing distance, retinal images size, and various contextual
cues such as linear perspective and the size and location of neighboring objects. Recently …

Abstract Mruczek et al.(2015) showed that a moving version of the Ebbinghaus illusion
almost doubles in strength compared to the standard version. In their stimulus, the size of the …