Configurational coincidence among six phenomena: a comment on van Lier and Csathó (2006).

Abstract

This study focuses on a configurational coincidence among six different illusions, two being motion illusions (reversed phi movement and phi movement), two being binocular stereo effects (Anstis-Rogers type and Gregory-Heard type), one being a position illusion (Gregory-Heard illusion), and one being an orientation illusion (Café-Wall-like tilt illusion). The stimuli of these six illusions or effects share the same configuration, in which a thin region is flanked by thick regions of different luminances. A phenomenological comparison is conducted with the use of dynamic demonstrations as well as static ones. In particular, the reversed phi movement is extensively discussed.

• Authors: Akiyoshi Kitaoka
• Journal: Perception (Perception) Vol. 35 Issue 6 Pg. 799-806 ( 2006) ISSN: 0301-0066 [Print] United States
• PMID: 16836045 (Publication Type: Comment, Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Review)

Topics

• Humans
• Motion Perception
• Optical Illusions
• Orientation
• Pattern Recognition, Visual
• Perceptual Distortion
• Psychophysics
• Vision, Binocular