Abstract
The number of phenomena that are described as illusions has greatly grown during the last two centuries, and research on illusions has become a fundamental component of psychological research about perception. In the use made, for instance, by Gregory (1997) “illusion” is an umbrella term for a great variety of phenomena, considered to be systematic perceptual errors occurring during inferential processes, including: ambiguities (the Necker cube, visual effects provoked by mist or retinal rivalry); distortions (classic geometric illusions, but also mirages); paradoxes (impossible figures, the mirror represented in Magritte’s “La reproduction interdite”); fictions (rainbows, galleons in the clouds, the Kanizsa triangle and after-images). However, the characterization of the notion of illusion is not uncontroversial.KeywordsPerceptual ExperienceGolf BallInferential ProcessAmbiguous FigureNecker CubeThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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