Key to all optical illusions discovered

Posted on June 2, 2008 - 11:44 by LiveScience

Humans can see into the future, says a cognitive scientist. It's nothing like the alleged predictive powers of Nostradamus, but we do get a glimpse of events one-tenth of a second before they occur. And the mechanism behind that can also explain why we are tricked by optical illusions.

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