The rocking line illusion

A new visual illusion is described in which a smoothly translating object appears to rock around its own center during motion. This “rocking line” illusion occurs when the object passes through contrast boundaries formed by static background elements. However, for it to appear, the spatial scale of...

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Autores principales: Thornton, Ian M., Todorović, Dejan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2023
Materias:
Short and Sweet
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10331093/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37435314
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20416695231184388
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description A new visual illusion is described in which a smoothly translating object appears to rock around its own center during motion. This “rocking line” illusion occurs when the object passes through contrast boundaries formed by static background elements. However, for it to appear, the spatial scale of the display must be adjusted appropriately. We provide an online demo where the effect can be experienced and relevant parameters manipulated.
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spelling pubmed-103310932023-07-11 The rocking line illusion Thornton, Ian M. Todorović, Dejan Iperception Short and Sweet A new visual illusion is described in which a smoothly translating object appears to rock around its own center during motion. This “rocking line” illusion occurs when the object passes through contrast boundaries formed by static background elements. However, for it to appear, the spatial scale of the display must be adjusted appropriately. We provide an online demo where the effect can be experienced and relevant parameters manipulated. SAGE Publications 2023-07-04 /pmc/articles/PMC10331093/ /pubmed/37435314 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20416695231184388 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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