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Lateral inhibition and geometric illusions.
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The results indicate that lateral inhibition may play a contributory role in illusion formation, but it is not the primary casual, mechanism.Abstract:
It has been suggested that lateral inhibitory processes, operating through the mutual inhibition and displacement of spatially adjacent contours imaged on the retina, may account for many of the classical geometric illusions. Two experiments were conducted, one using an alternative form of the Poggendorff illusion, and the other an alternative form of the Muller—Lyer, in which the adjacent contours necessary for the operation of the inhibitory mechanism were eliminated. In both instances the illusion was still found to exist, although somewhat reduced in magnitude. These results indicate that lateral inhibition may play a contributory role in illusion formation, but it is not the primary casual, mechanism.read more
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Size and direction of distortion in geometric-optical illusions: conciliation between the Müller-Lyer and Titchener configurations.
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The Müller-Lyer Illusion in a computational model of biological object recognition.
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Interaction space of Müller-Lyer with filled-unfilled illusion: An explanation of Müller-Lyer asymmetry
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A method to assess the relative contribution of lateral inhibition to the magnitude of visual-geometric illusions.
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Binocular and stereoscopic viewing of geometric illusions.
Peter Schiller,Morton Wiener +1 more
TL;DR: It is found that the reduction of illusions under stereoscopic conditions can be attributed to both binocular rivalry and depth perception of the stimuli, and Day concluded that the interpretations of Ohwaki and Springbett regarding the retinal origin of geometric illusions thus seem unjustified.