i-Perception (Dec 2014)

Illusory Drifting within a Window That Moves across a Flickering Background

  • Stuart Anstis,
  • Sae Kaneko

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1068/i0695sas
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5

Abstract

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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.