A Study of Optical Illusions

"A picture is worth a thousand words."or "Seeing is believing."  Sometimes our eyes deceive us, and what we see is only what our brain expects us to see. Optical illusions are amusing, but they also teach us a lot about how our brain works in conjunction with our eyes to create a vision.


www.grand-illusions.com/opticalillusions
8 great optical illusions

An online science museum of optical illusions

Online museum with both online and downloadable illusions
  

Color and Light - Optics for Kids

Activity: Optical Illusion

This activity introduces the concepts of how perceptions can be distorted, and how stereotypes work.

Vision and Light

                                     Great Site with many Optical Illusions!

http://educ.jmu.edu/~johns2ja/illusion/illusion.htm

I hope you enjoy this study as much as we do!