Of interest to MBT is a BBC Horizon program Is Seeing Believing ?

The complex structure of the visual system is sometimes exposed by its illusions. The historical study of systematic misperceptions, combined with a recent explosion of techniques to measure and stimulate neural activity, has provided a rich
source for guiding neurobiological frameworks and experiments.
The act of ‘seeing’ seems so effortless that it is difficult to appreciate the vastly sophisticated — and poorly understood — machinery that underlies the process. Illusions, often, are those
stimuli that exist at the extremes of what our system has evolved to handle. Sometimes illusions stem from assumptions made by the visual system; at other times they represent an
active recalibration. In all these cases, illusions serve as a powerful window into the neurobiology of vision, and have pointed towards new experimental techniques.

I haven't dug into that channel yet, but it reminded me about this .pdf titled Visual illusions and neurobiology