Illusory Drifting within a Window That Moves across a Flickering Background. (December 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Anstis, Stuart; Kaneko, Sae
• Is Part Of: I-Perception. Volume 5:Number 7(2014)
• Page Start: 585
• Page End: 588
• Publication Date: 2014-12
• Subjects: illusion -- motion -- position-shift -- reverse-phi; Perception -- Periodicals; Visual perception -- Periodicals; Perception; Perception; Electronic journals; Periodical; Fulltext; Internet Resources; Periodicals; Periodicals; 153.7
• DOI: 10.1068/i0695sas
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2041-6695

Abstract

When a striped disk moves across a flickering background, the stripes paradoxically seem to move faster than the disk itself. We attribute this new illusion to reverse-phi motion, which slows down the disk rim but does not affect the stripes.