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Motion-Induced Blindness

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Motion-induced blindness, also known as Bonneh's illusion, is a visual illusion in which a large pattern of continuous motion causes small, steady, stationary dots to disappear from a viewer's perception while the viewer fixates on the center of the display. The effect was first reported by Bonneh, Cooperman and Sagi in 2001, whose original experiments used a moving swarm of blue dots on a virtual sphere alongside a few small stationary yellow dots. In their study, one or more of the stationary dots vanished from perception for brief, randomly timed intervals after about ten seconds of viewing.

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Core Claim
a visual illusion in which a large, continuously moving pattern erases from perception some small, continuously presented, stationary dots when one looks steadily at the center of the display 1
First Described Year
2001 1
Classification
Type of Phenomenon
Perceptual Phenomenon 1
Sources
1. Motion-induced blindness - Wikipedia
  • Intro, sentence 1
    a visual illusion in which a large, continuously moving pattern erases from perception some small, continuously presented, stationary dots when one looks steadily at the center of the display
  • Discovery section
    It was discovered by Bonneh, Cooperman, and Sagi (2001)
  • lead section, phenomenon-kind classification
    Motion-induced blindness, also known as Bonneh's illusion, is a visual illusion in which a large pattern of continuous motion causes small, steady, stationary dots to disappear from a viewer's perception while the viewer fixates on the center of the display.
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