title: Configurational coincidence among six phenomena: a comment on van Lier and Csathó (2006).
abstract: This study focuses on a configurational coincidence among six different illusions, two being motion illusions (reversed phi movement and phi movement), two being binocular stereo effects (Anstis-Rogers type and Gregory-Heard type), one being a position illusion (Gregory-Heard illusion), and one being an orientation illusion (Café-Wall-like tilt illusion). The stimuli of these six illusions or effects share the same configuration, in which a thin region is flanked by thick regions of different luminances. A phenomenological comparison is conducted with the use of dynamic demonstrations as well as static ones. In particular, the reversed phi movement is extensively discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto 603-8577, Japan. akitaoka@lt.ritsumei.ac.jp
authors.forename: Akiyoshi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kitaoka
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009039:Motion Perception; D009903:Optical Illusions; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010469:Perceptual Distortion; D011601:Psychophysics; D015348:Vision, Binocular