Explained by Vilayanur Ramachandran:
Explained by Philip Zimbardo:
Apr 202011
Mar 212011
Dec 082010
Also known as Titchener circles.
Nov 272010
Nov 262010
Image
Edward Adelson‘s checkered Illusion: The two squares labeled A and B are the same colour.
©1995, Edward H. Adelson. These checkershadow images may be reproduced and distributed freely.
Link
Nov 252010
The University of Massachusetts Lowell has a good section of visual illusions.
- Apparent Motion: Beta Motion
- Observer perpective in perception
- Nik’s Mummy – a reversal
- Poggendorff Illusion
- Disappearing Stars
- Illusory Depth – Blur and Color
- Illusory Depth – Blur and Color
- Subjective Contours
- Impossible Figures
- Illusory Depth – Completion
- Figure of a Woman
- Vase/Faces Illusion
- Hering Illusion
- Apparent Motion: Phi Motion
- Horizontal-Vertical Illusion
- Objects by Common Fate
- Masking and Metacontrast
- Passing keys through your hand
- Howard’s Color Contrast
- Hermann Grid
- Color Illusions
- Experience Your Blind Spot
- Mach Bands
- Necker Cube
- More Negative Color Afterimages
- Linear perspective & Ponzo
- Making the Statue of Liberty Disappear
- Negative Afterimages
- Illusory Depth – Perspective and Shading
- Staircase Illusion
- Hermann-Hering Illusion
- Determining Visual Angle
- Organization in Perception
- Mark Newbold’s Site
- Rod & Cone Distribution in the Retina
- Backward masking