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An optical illusion (also called a visual illusion) is an illusion caused by the visual system and characterized by visually perceived images that differ from objective reality.

The information gathered by the eye is processed in the brain to give a percept that does not tally with a physical measurement of the stimulus source.

There are three main types: literal optical illusions that create images that are different from the objects that make them, physiological illusions that are the effects of excessive stimulation of a specific type (brightness, colour, size, position, tilt, movement), and cognitive illusions, the result of unconscious inferences.

Pathological visual illusions arise from a pathological exaggeration in physiological visual perception mechanisms causing the aforementioned types of illusions.

Brain Games is a popular science television series that explores cognitive science by focusing on illusions, psychological experiments, and counterintuitive thinking.

Neil Patrick Harris was the unseen narrator in the first season, replaced by Jason Silva for the remainder of the series as its host and presenter; in addition, sleight-of-hand artist Apollo Robbins has been a frequent consultant and illusionist guest on the show.

The show is interactive, encouraging television viewers, often along with a handful of live volunteers, to engage in visual, auditory, and other cognitive experiments, or "brain games", that emphasize the main points presented in each episode.

The series debuted on the National Geographic Channel in 2011 as a special.

Its return as an original series in 2013 set a record for the highest premiere rating for any National Geographic Channel original series with 1.5 million viewers.

Season 7 aired in early 2016., season 8 has been neither cancelled nor had its premiere date announced.

A riddle is a or question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved.

Riddles are of two types: enigmas, which are problems generally expressed in metaphorical or allegorical language that require ingenuity and careful thinking for their solution, and conundra, which are questions relying for their effects on punning in either the question or the answer.

A logic puzzle is a puzzle deriving from the mathematics field of deduction.

History.

The logic puzzle was first produced by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who is better known under his pen name Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

In his book The Game of Logic he introduced a game to solve problems such as confirming the conclusion "Some greyhounds are not fat" from the statements "No fat creatures run well" and "Some greyhounds run well".

Puzzles like this, where we are given a list of premises and asked what can be deduced from them, are known as syllogisms.

Dodgson goes on to construct much more complex puzzles consisting of up to 8 premises.

A brain teaser is a form of puzzle that requires thought to solve.

It often requires thinking in unconventional ways with given constraints in mind; sometimes it also involves lateral thinking.

Logic puzzles and riddles are specific types of brain teasers.