Looks Can Be Deceiving: How Your Brain Deals With Optical Illusions

Ever wonder how optical illusions like the Müller-Lyer illusion make you question what you’re seeing? Discover how your brain interprets shadows as perspective cues, distorting your depth perception and making spinning patterns and linear perspective fool your mind. This video dives deep into cognitive illusions and psychological perception tricks, revealing how the visual cortex and primary visual cortex work with your retina, optic nerve, and thalamus to create visual distortions. From the visual field to the occipital lobe, explore how these complex brain processes can deceive us in fascinating ways. Whether you're amazed by cognitive distortions or looking for your next scroll saw project inspiration, this video will leave you seeing things in a whole new light!