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Some motion demonstrations (Ramachandran & Anstis, Scientific American 1986)

When the black and white bars switch places, on a dark surround (left) the white bar appears to jump, but on a light surround (right) the black bar appears to jump. The bar with the higher contrast wins out. The mid-grey at which the motions balance is the arithmetic (not geometric) mean of the black & white, suggesting linear, not logarithmic processing of luminance. (Anstis & Mather, Perception 1986).

Ambiguous apparent motion. The two spots move either vertically or horizontally. Can you control the direction by willpower?

Proximity: Motion is seen between nearest neighbors, horizontally on the left, vertically on the right. Shorter motion paths win out.

Visual inertia drives ambiguous apparent motion. Each spot appears to follow a horizontal path, not jumping up or down halfway across. Straight motion paths are preferred to going round corners.

The ambiguous motions all remain locked in step -- all move horizontally, or all move vertically

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