This Optical Illusion Will Make You Worry About Your Stupid Brain

Here’s why you can’t see all the black dots at once.

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Well, the image was originally posted to Facebook by the Japanese psychology professor Akiyoshi Kitaoka, who took it from an academic paper published in Perception by Jacques Ninio and Kent A Stevens, in which they looked at variations of the Hermann Grid.

Here is the Hermann Grid: dark patches appear where the lines cross, except when you're looking directly at an intersection.

Here is the Hermann Grid: dark patches appear where the lines cross, except when you're looking directly at an intersection.

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