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Flies Fall For Optical Illusions Just Like Us, Despite Millions of Years of Evolution – ScienceAlert
Sometimes our eyes play tricks on us, and sometimes, we play tricks on them. Optical illusions have entranced neuroscientists for decades, but these false messages have probably been going on much longer than we’ve been studying them.
Sometimes our eyes play tricks on us, and sometimes, we play tricks on them. Optical illusions have entranced neuroscientists for decades, but these false messages have probably been going on much longer than we’ve been studying them.
New research has found the eyes of fruit flies are just as easily fooled by static visual patterns with high contrast, seeing motion where there is none.
For an invertebrate with compound eyes (which, close up, look kind of like an optical illusion themselves), t…
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