As neuroscientists who study perception, we feel compelled to study the nature of visual paradoxes. Let us take the simplest case.

Art Mokha Laget’s Visual Paradoxes Her paintings suggest exploded-view diagrams of parts that don’t fit together, as if the shapes are derived from a pleasantly illogical Jenga puzzle.

Visual paradoxes This is a Penrose triangle. It is an example of an impossible object or a visual paradox. It appears to depict a contradictory object that cannot exist.

Convergence, Rebecca Rutstein’s exhibit on view at the John Hartell Gallery in Sibley Dome, is full of visual paradoxes that play with the eye, mind and soul. One glance into the gallery space ...

There are great visual paradoxes when Clementine walks down a street only to appear to return right where she began, like an urban Penrose staircase, or the Eldritchian version of Patrick (Elijah Wood ...

Walter B. Pitkin, Some Neglected Paradoxes of Visual Space. I, The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, Vol. 6, No. 22 (Oct. 28, 1909), pp. 601-608 ...

My recent article in Art & Perception uses works of art to demonstrate that visual perception – and representations of the visual world – involve mind-stretching paradoxes and logical problems.

One tasty metaphor on why our search for aliens has yet to prove fruitful.

As neuroscientists who study perception, we feel compelled to study the nature of visual paradoxes. Let us take the simplest case.