#perception

Impossible colors — hues that can't exist in the physical world but that some people can perceive — are a small, strange window into the gap between representation and reality.

On phantom melodies, auditory pareidolia, and the brain's compulsion to finish what was never started.

On the Shepard tone, auditory illusions, and what it means when your brain confidently perceives something that doesn't exist.

Roman statues were never white — and what we lost when we forgot that says something uncomfortable about how history gets remembered.