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Optical Illusions

Known as: Illusion, Optical, Illusions, Optical, Optical Illusion 
The visual perception of an image that differs from the reality of the image.
National Institutes of Health

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Review
2018
Review
2018
Nonaneurysmal "Pseudo-Subarachnoid Hemorrhage" Computed Tomography Patterns: Challenges in an Acute Decision-Making Heuristics.
2010
2010
Determinants of filled/empty optical illusion: Search for the locus of maximal effect.
A subdivided path in the visual field usually appears longer than an empty path of the same length. This phenomenon, known as the… 
2009
2009
Paradoxical form of filled/empty optical illusion.
The filled/empty illusion (Oppel-Kundt) is one of the oldest geometrical-optical illusions, but the determinants of the illusion… 
Review
2008
Review
2008
Illusions in the spatial sense of the eye: Geometrical–optical illusions and the neural representation of space
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Motor adaptation to an optical illusion
Abstract. This research investigated the effects of an orientation illusion on action, as well as the ability of the motor system… 
1997
1997
A combination of focusing and defocusing through yoga reduces optical illusion more than focusing alone.
The degree of optical illusion was assessed using standard Muller-Lyer lines in two groups (yoga and control) of thirty subjects… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Anosognosia in Parietal Lobe Syndrome
Patients with right parietal lesions often deny their paralysis (anosognosia), but do they have "tacit" knowledge of their… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Geometrical haptic illusions revisited: Haptic illusions compared with visual illusions
Révész (1934) reported that haptic illusions were observed in almost all of the geometrical optical illusion figures. The present… 
1970
1970
Distortions of Apparent Velocity: A New Optical Illusion
To an observer whose one eye is covered with a relatively strong filter (approximately 90 percent extinction) and who views a… 
1967
1967
Mueller-Lyer Illusion by the Blind
  • L. S. Tsai
  • Perceptual and Motor Skills
  • 1967
  • Corpus ID: 40488729
With a specially designed apparatus of cardboard and embossed with Braille lines, 9 blind Ss, 3 born blind, 3 blinded in… 
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