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Visual Illusions

A perceptual phenomenon in which what a person sees departs from the true physical properties of the stimulus in front of them, produced by the way the visual system processes edges, color, brightness, motion, faces and letters rather than by any defect in the eye itself. This group gathers the visual perception and illusion phenomena recorded for this atlas, spanning classic geometric and brightness illusions, gestalt organization principles that describe how the visual system groups shapes and figures, and closely related effects in how faces, letters and ambiguous images are seen and recognized.

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Afterimage

Perception and Psychophysics Effects
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Ambiguous Image

Perception and Psychophysics Effects

Ames Room Illusion

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Ames Window

Perception and Psychophysics Effects

Aphantasia

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Asahi Illusion

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Attentional Blink

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Autostereogram

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Benham's Top

Perception and Psychophysics Effects

Bezold Effect

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Binocular Rivalry

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Blindsight

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Cafe Wall Illusion

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Cathedral Effect

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Change Blindness

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Checker Shadow Illusion

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Chubb Illusion

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Color Constancy

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Cornsweet Illusion

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Crater Illusion

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Dark Adaptation

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Ehrenstein Illusion

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Face Superiority Effect

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False Visual Reference Illusion

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Fechner Color Effect

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Figure-Ground Organization

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Filling-In

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Flanker Effect

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Flash Lag Illusion

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Flash-Lag Effect

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Forward Masking

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Fraser Spiral Illusion

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Ganzfeld Effect

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Garden Path Effect

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Glassy Water Illusion

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Graveyard Spin

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Gravity Hill

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Grid Illusion

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Hering Illusion

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Hermann Grid Illusion

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Hollow-Face Illusion

Perception and Psychophysics Effects

Hyperphantasia

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Impossible Object

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Impossible Trident

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Jastrow Illusion

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Kanizsa Triangle

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Koffka Ring

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Law of Closure

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Law of Common Fate

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Law of Continuity

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Law of Proximity

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Law of Symmetry

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Lawn Dart Effect

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Leaning Tower Illusion

Perception and Psychophysics Effects

Lilac Chaser

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McCollough Effect

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Missing Letter Effect

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Muller-Lyer Illusion

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Necker Cube

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Numerosity Adaptation Effect

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Oppel-Kundt Illusion

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Orbison Illusion

Perception and Psychophysics Effects

Ouchi Illusion

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Palinopsia

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Penrose Triangle

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Perceived Visual Angle

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Perky Effect

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Persistence of Vision

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Poggendorff Illusion

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Prevalence Effect

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Principles of Grouping

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Repeating Pattern Illusion

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Rotating Snakes Illusion

Perception and Psychophysics Effects

Rubin Vase

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Sander Illusion

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Tau Effect

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Thatcher Effect

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Thaumatrope

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The Dress

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Transposed Letter Effect

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Vertical-Horizontal Illusion

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Visual Capture

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Visual Search

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White's Illusion

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Word Superiority Effect

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Wundt Illusion

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Zollner Illusion

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Sources
1. Wikipedia: Visual perception
WikipediaVisual perception, lead section, Visual Illusions group
Quote, Visual perception, lead section, Visual Illusions group
Visual perception is the ability to detect light and use it to form an image of the surrounding environment.
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