The Drifting Edge Illusion: A stationary edge abutting an oriented drifting grating appears to move because of the 'other aperture problem'

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 2403-2414

  Caplovitz, Gideon P ^a   Paymer, Nora A ^a   Tse, Peter U ^a  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

Aperture problem; Barberpole illusion; Component motion; Form motion interaction; Oblique effect; Terminator motion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GRATING; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION METHOD; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 52949092397     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.07.014     Document Type: Article

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