The riddle of the Rotating-Tilted-Lines illusion.
Gori and Hamburger (2006, Perception 35 853-857) devised a new visual illusion of relative motion elicited by the observer's motion. We propose that the systematic error of direction discrimination found by Lorenceau et al (1993, Vision Research 33 1207 - 1217) can explain this illusion. The neural correlate of such a systematic error with respect to the two types of neurons in the primary visual cortex, namely end-stopped and contour cells, is discussed.
Gori
Simone
S
Università degli studi di Trieste, Dipartimento di Psicologia, Italy. gori@psico.units.it
Yazdanbakhsh
Arash
A
D005556:Form Perception / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D009068:Movement; D009903:Optical Illusions; D009949:Orientation; D011601:Psychophysics