(Medical Xpress) -- Our interpretation of the world around us may have more in common with the impossible staircase illusion than it does the real world, according to research published today in ...

With impossible objects like the stairs above, those two pathways in your gray matter fire back and forth more than usual, trying to come to a conclusion. But they can’t, ...

In Schröder’s Stairs, the A wall appears closest to ... This article was originally published with the title “ The Ups and Downs of An Impossible Staircase ” in SA Mind Vol. 32 No. 3 (May ...

Christopher Nolan’s film Inception features a classic optical illusion called the Penrose staircase, which folds back upon itself in space. World-renowned puzzlemaker and LEGO constructor Eric ...

NEXT designed The Elastic Perspective, a staircase based on the Möbius strip. “The idea of the impossible stair [is] you’re not able to continue your trip.