Effects of stimulus material on the Fröhlich illusion

• Published in: Vision research (Oxford) Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 181 - 189
• Main Authors: Kerzel, Dirk, Müsseler, Jochen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 2002; Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Adult; Analysis of Variance; Attention; Biological and medical sciences; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Illusion; Localization; Motion; Motion Perception; Optical Illusions; Perception; Photic Stimulation - methods; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Rotation; Space perception; Vision; Motion; Illusion; Space perception; Localization; Attention; Human; Stimulus localization; Stimulus movement; Vision; Optical illusion; Experimental study; Visual attention; Stimulus position

In the Fröhlich illusion, judgements of the first position of a moving object are typically displaced in the direction of motion. The illusion has been obtained with linear motion of a small target, and with rotary motion of a spatially extended line. We compared judgements of the initial orientatio...