Illusion tricks brain into thinking red

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These strawberries aren't red - how optical illusion tricks your BRAIN

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Dr Dean Jackson , a biologist and BBC presenter, has shared a strange optical illusion on TikTok .

He shows a picture of red strawberries on a white plate with a cyan filter, before asking what colour you think the strawberries are.

While your inital reaction is likely 'red', Dr Jackson explains that they are now grey.

He then adds bars around them to make it clear that with the cyan filter added, the berries are grey.

It has also been called the 'illusion of kindergarten patterns', because it was often seen in the weaving of kindergarten students. The café wall illusion has helped neuropsychologists study the way in which visual information is processed by the brain. The illusion has also been used in graphic design and art applications, as well as architectural applications (pictured).

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