A line-doubling illusion

Stuart Anstis; Patrick Cavanagh

doi:10.47691/joi.v2.7540

Stuart Anstis Department of Psychology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Patrick Cavanagh Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Psychology, Glendon College, Toronto, ON, Canada; and Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NJ, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.47691/joi.v2.7540

Keywords: illusion, peripheral vision, phase reversal, edge, texture boundary

Abstract

We present a novel ‘dazzle’ illusion, in which a black/white negative bar embedded in a grating and viewed in near peripheral vision can look doubled, as if there were two bars lying side by side touching each other.

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