Description
Visual illusions cut across academic divides and popular interests: on the one hand, illusions provide entertainment as curious tricks of the eye; on the other hand, scientific research related to illusory phenomena has given generations of scientists and artists deep insights into the brain and principles of mind and consciousness. Numerous thinkers (including Aristotle, Descartes, Da Vinci, Escher, Goethe, Galileo, Helmholtz, Maxwell, Newton, and Wittgenstein) have been lured by the apparent simplicity of illusions and the promise that illusory phenomena can elucidate the puzzling relationship between the physical world and our perceptual reality. Over the past thirty years, advances in imaging and electrophysiology has dramatically expanded the range of illusions and enabled new forms of analysis, thereby creating new and exciting ways to consider how the brain constructs our perceptual world.The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions is a collection of over one hundred chapters about illusions, displayed and discussed by the researchers who invented and conducted research on the illusions. Chapters include full-color images, associated videos, and extensive references. The book is divided into eleven sections: first, a presentation of general history and viewpoints on illusions, followed by sections on geometric, color, motion, space, faces, and cross-category illusions. The book will be of interest to vision scientists, neuroscientists, psychologists, physicists, philosophers, artists, designers, advertisers, and educators curious about applied aspects of visual perception and the brain.
Table of Contents
How to Use the Online TextbookIntroductionPart I: Introductory General Chapters1. Early history of illusionsNicholas J. Wade2. Cross-cultural Studies of IllusionsJ.B. Dergowski3. Visual Illusion in a Comparative PerspectiveKazuo Fujita, Noriyuki Nakamura, and Sota Watanabe4. An Analysis of Theoretical Approaches to Geometrical-Optical IllusionsBarbara Gillam5. Visual Illusions in ActionNicola Bruno6. Motion Illusions in Man and MachineCornelia Fermüller7. The Visual World as Illusion: The Ones We Know and the Ones We Don'tStephen Grossberg8. Visual Illusions?Jan Koenderink9. Why the Concept of "Visual Illusions" is MisleadingDale Purves, William T. Wojtach, R. Beau Lotto10. Where have all the illusions gone? -- A critique of the concept of illusionBrian RogersPart II: Geometrical11. Weighted positional averaging in the illusions of the Müller-Lyer typeAleksandr Bulatov12. The Bar Cross Ellipse IllusionGideon P. Caplovitz, Alex Boswell, and Kyle Killebrew13. The Spinning Ellipse Speed IllusionGideon Paul Caplovitz, Po-Jang Hsieh, Peter J. Kohler, and Katharine B. Porter14. The Ames-window illusion and its variationsMarcel de Heer and Thomas V. Papathomas15. Three-Dimensional Müller-Lyer Illusion: Theoretical and Practical ImplicationsPatricia R. DeLucia16. Why do Hills Look so Steep?Frank H. Durgin and Zhi Li17. "Shape from Smear": An Illusion of 3D Shape, Made by Finger-Painting with NoiseRoland W. Fleming and Daniel Holtmann-Rice18. Geometric-optical illusions under isoluminance?Kai Hamburger, Thorsten Hansen, and Karl R. Gegenfurtner19. The Picture Surface Illusion: 3D Biases 2DSherief Hammad and John M. Kennedy20. Cast Shadow IllusionsDaniel Kersten and Pascal Mamassian21. Leaning Tower IllusionFrederick A. A. Kingdom, Ali Yoonessi, and Elena Gheorghiu22. The Invisible Saddle, or the Cap-or-Cup IllusionJan Koenderink, Andrea van Doorn, and Johan Wagemans23. Symmetry and uprightness in visually-perceived shapesLydia Maniatis24. Bath Tub IllusionLydia Maniatis25. The Pitchroom Illusion: How High is Up?Leonard Matin, Ethel Matin, Wenxun Li, Todd E. Hudson, and Adam Shavit26. Geometric Illusions in the Human Face and BodyKazunori Morikawa27. Dynamic Illusory Size Contrast: enhanced relative size effects due to stimulus motionRyan E.B. Mruczek, Christopher D. Blair, Lars Strother, and Gideon P. Caplovitz28. Size Contrast and assimilation in the Delboeuf and Ebbinghaus illusionsRyan E.B. Mruczek, Christopher D. Blair, Lars Strother, and Gideon P. Caplovitz29. The Occlusion, Configural Shape, and Shrinkage IllusionsStephen E. Palmer and Karen B. Schloss30. Reverse-perspective art and objects - Illusions in depth and motionThomas V. Papathomas31. The New Moon IllusionBrian Rogers and Stuart Anstis32. Geometrical errors are the cost of maintaining the luminance contrast polaritySergio Roncato33. Antigravity Slopes: A new type of visual illusionKokichi Sugihara34. The geometrical-optical illusions of J.J. OppelDejan Todorovic35. Oppel-Kundt IllusionJi?í Wackermann36. The Shifted-Chessboard Pattern as Paradigm of the Exegesis of Geometrical-optical IllusionsGerald WestheimerPart III: Brightness/Lightness/Color37. A Layered Experience of Lightness and ColorBarton L. Anderson38. Color & luminance: afterimages, combinations and flickerStuart Anstis39. The White effectBarbara Blakeslee and Mark E. McCourt40. The Dungeon IllusionPaola Bressan and Peter Kramer41. The contrast contrast illusionCharles Chubb, Joshua A. Solomon, and George Sperling42. Illusory Color Spread from Apparent MotionCarol M. Cicerone and Donald D. Hoffman43. The reversed contrast Necker cubeAlessandra Galmonte and Tiziano Agostini44. Changing the Chevreul Illusion by a Background Luminance RampJános Geier and Mariann Hudák45. The curved grid non-illusions: eliminating Hermann's spots and Lingelbach's scintillationJános Geier and Mariann Hudák46. The Staircase Gelb IllusionAlan Gilchrist47. The Breathing Light Illusion: illusory size and brightness variation induced by motionSimone Gori, Enrico Giora, and D. Alan Stubbs48. Large Shift in Brightness Induced by Motion in ContextSang Wook Hong49. The Chromatic Mach CardAnya Hurlbert50. Colour AssimilationFrederick A. A. Kingdom51. When light looks like paintFrederick A. A. Kingdom52. The Scintillating GridBernd Lingelbach53. Second-order Mach Bands, Chevreul, and Craik-O'Brien-Cornsweet IllusionsZhong-Lin Lu and George Sperling54. Vasarely's Nested Squares and the Alternating Brightness Star illusionSusana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik55. Grating InductionMark E. McCourt and Barbara Blakeslee56. Illusory variations in apparent dot brightness induced by density modulationsJeffrey B. Mulligan57. On the Watercolor IllusionBaingio Pinna58. The Chinese lantern illusionSergio Roncato, Sandro Bettella, and Clara Casco59. The Wedding Cake Illusion: Interaction of Geometric and Photometric Factors in Induced Contrast and AssimilationBranka Spehar and Colin WG Clifford60. Filling-in between contoursRob van Lier61. The glare effectDaniele Zavagno and Olga DaneykoPart IV: Motion-Based62. Improbable Illusory ContoursBarton L. Anderson63. Low-level motion illusionsStuart Anstis64. High-level organization of motion: Ambiguous, Primed, Sliding, & FlashedStuart Anstis65. Backscroll illusionKiyoshi Fujimoto66. The Rotating Tilted Lines Illusion: rotation instead of expansion, a peculiar case of motion misperceptionSimone Gori67. The enigmatic Enigma illusionKai Hamburger68. The Fraser-Wilcox illusion and its extensionAkiyoshi Kitaoka69. Induced motionJasmin Léveillé and Arash Yazdanbakhsh70. The Freezing Rotation IllusionErika N. Lorincz and Max R. Dürsteler71. Second-order Reversed PhiZhong-Lin Lu and George Sperling72. Attention-generated apparent motionZhong-Lin Lu and George Sperling73. Two-stroke apparent motionGeorge Mather74. On the Pinna IllusionBaingio Pinna75. Color Wagon WheelArthur Shapiro76. The Aperture Problem: Illusions arising during the integration and segmentation of motion within and across aperturesMaggie Shiffrar77. Paths of Apparent Human Motion Follow Motor ConstraintsMaggie Shiffrar and Christina Joseph78. The Motion Standstill IllusionGeorge Sperling, Son-Hee Lyu, Chia-Huei Tseng, and Zhong-Lin Lu79. Objectless Motion: The Pedestalled Motion ParadigmGeorge Sperling and Zhong-Lin Lu80. Silencing the awareness of changeJordan W. Suchow and George A. Alvarez81. The Kayahara Silhouette IllusionNikolaus F. Troje82. The motion aftereffectFrans A.J. Verstraten and Peter J. Bex83. High phi and ghost phi: Extreme motion illusionsMark Wexler84. Stereokinetic phenomenaMario Zanforlin85. Motion illusions in static patternsJohannes M. ZankerPart V: Faces86. The Venus EffectMarco Bertamini and Richard Latto87. The Hollow-mask Illusion and VariationsThomas V. Papathomas88. The Illusion of SexRichard Russell89. The Bogart EffectSharon Gilad-Gutnick, Rohan Varma, and Pawan Sinha90. The Presidential IllusionSharon Gilad-Gutnick and Pawan Sinha91. About Face: The Margaret Thatcher IllusionPeter Thompson92. The Mona Lisa effectDejan Todorovic93. The Wobbling Face IllusionSayako Ueda and Akiyoshi Kitaoka94. Adaptation aftereffects in the perception of facesMichael A. WebsterPart VI: Grouping and Organization95. Ambiguous Figures Moving ForwardLori J. Bernstein96. The Scramble Illusion: Texture MetamersCharles Chubb, Joseph Darcy, Michael S. Landy, John Econopouly, Jong-Ho Nam, Dan Bindman, and George Sperling97. Amodally completed anglesWalter Gerbino98. Subjective ContoursBarbara Gillam99. The Ternus EffectElisabeth Hein100. Two sinusoids: 6 - 1 perceptionsJan Kremlacek101. The Illusions of NumerosityRiccardo Luccio102. The Aperture Capture IllusionEvan M. Palmer and Philip J. KellmanPart VII: Attention103. Motion-induced blindness (MIB)Yoram Bonneh104. Inattentional blindness and the illusion of attentionDaniel J. SimonsPart VIII: Binocular Vision/Stereopsis105. Binocular rivalry: The illusion of disappearanceRandolph Blake106. Stereo Rotation Standstill and Related IllusionsMax R. Dürsteler and Erika N. Lorincz107. The graph-paper effect: a moving, illusory, stereoscopic textureMark GeorgesonPart IX: Adaptation108. Adaptation to brightness change, contours, jogging, and apparent motionStuart Anstis109. The Color Dove illusion- chromatic filling in effect following a spatial-temporal edgeYuval Barkan and Hedva Spitzer110. Blur adaptation and inductionMichael A. WebsterPart X: Conflicting Scale or Other Information111. Hybrid Image IllusionAude Oliva and Philippe G. Schyns112. Contrast AsynchroniesArthur Shapiro113. Hidden ImagesNicholas J. WadePart XI: Multisensory114. The three-dimensional Necker cubeNicola Bruno115. The McGurk Effect and the Primacy of Multisensory PerceptionJames W. Dias, Theresa C. Cook, and Lawrence D. RosenblumIndex
