Meanings of cognitive illusion in English

He discovered that their apparent success is a cognitive illusion.

After researching neuroscience studies on "embodiment," the cognitive illusion of being someone else, design collective BeAnother­Lab set out to give people a taste of adversity.

These are cognitive illusions, a parallel to optical illusions.

So we can add to our running list of cognitive illusions, biases and failings of intuition:

It's also an excellent demonstration of how strong the parallels are between these cognitive illusions and the perceptual illusions with which we are more familiar.