Attention-induced motion displacement

Peter Tse, Patrick Cavanagh, David Whitney & Stuart Anstis
Dartmouth College, USA, UC San Diego, USA, Université Paris Descartes, France

Fixate the blue dot.
When you attend to the whole white layer”s motion, the red dots appear to be slanted to the right.
When you attend to the whole black layer”s motion, the red dots appear to be slanted to the left.

When you don”t attend to either layer, the dots are aligned vertically, which they in fact are in every case.

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Illusions from rotating rings

Stuart Anstis & Patrick Cavanagh
UC San Diego, USA, Université Paris Descartes, France

A rotating figure 8 made of two overlapping rings is ambiguous. Small spots painted on the rings can resolve the ambiguity, forcing them to look like an 8 or like 2 rings. Even without any spots, if the brightness of the intersections where the rings overlap makes the rings look transparent, they slide. If not, they stick.

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