Illusion on the edge of the eyes

In the recently published article in Psychological Science says about the illusions side view – turns out the corner of my eye, we sometimes see not what is really on the side of us, and what lies before us.

March Otten (Otten Marte) and her colleagues from the universities of Amsterdam, Sussex and Utrecht have put the following experiment: two dozen volunteers were shown various images and the first image in the center of the visual field and the image falling on the corner of my eye, was the same, but then what was with the edge, started to change gradually. The changes were very different: the images may vary in form, brightness, hue, image on the edge began to move differently, etc. Differences gradually increased, and from the person who was required to signal when he will finally notice that what he sees in the center, different from what he sees the corner of his eye.

"Illusion of consistency" are subject to all parameters: the shape, brightness, and movement, etc. of Course, if the differences were too obvious, the illusion was destroyed – a man saw in front of him and sideways there is two different things; on the other hand, if the illusion occurred, then kept it for quite some time, despite large differences in visual stimuli.
 

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