Troxler's fading is the disappearance of an unchanging visual stimulus from perception when a person fixates on a nearby point for even a short period of time. The Swiss physician Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler first identified the effect in 1804. Researchers attribute the fading to neural adaptation in the brain's visual processing rather than to any change occurring in the eye itself.
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Core Claiman optical illusion affecting visual perception 1 First Described Year Classification
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1. Troxler's fading - Wikipedia
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an optical illusion affecting visual perception
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Troxler's fading was first identified by Swiss physician Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler in 1804
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Troxler's fading, also called Troxler fading or the Troxler effect, is an optical illusion affecting visual perception.
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