Physicist Desiré Whitmore teaches workshops to help teachers better communicate science. As part of that, Desiré uses optical illusions to explain how social blind spots come into play in the classroom. Scott Barbour/Getty Images for NGV hide caption
Physicist Desiré Whitmore teaches workshops to help teachers better communicate science. As part of that, Desiré uses optical illusions to explain how social blind spots come into play in the classroom. Boris SV/Getty Images hide caption
When the Rotating Snakes illusion is presented in grayscale, most people still perceive motion, but less than in the original color version. Tania Lombrozo hide caption
In this perceptual illusion, regions of the image in peripheral vision appear to be in motion. In fact, the entire image is static. Courtesy of Akiyoshi Kitaoka hide caption