Introduction to Visual Illusion

since July 5, 2010


An academic book of visual illusions has been published!

ISBN978-4-254-10226-0



 



Introduction to Visual Illusions: Contents

This book extensively reviews a variety of visual illusions including illusions of shape, color, lightness, motion, spatial vision, transparency, completion or extinction phenomena, with abundant original images and full descriptions and references for each illusion or phenomenon.

Information
Title: Introduction to Visual Illusions
Author: Akiyoshi KITAOKA
Size: B5 variant, pp. 248, partly-colored
Price: 3675 yen (3500 yen without VAT)
ISBN: 978-4-254-10226-0 C3050
Issued: June 30, 2010
Publisher: Asakura-shoten


Contents
Chapter 1 Geometrical illusions
Chapter 2 Brightness/lightness illusions
Chapter 3 Color illusions
Chapter 4 Anomalous motion illusions
Chapter 5 Visual completion
Chapter 6 Extinction illusions
Chapter 7 Stereopsis and spatial vision
Chapter 8 Hidden images
Chapter 9 Face illusions
Chapter 10 What is visual illusion?
References
Index



Detailed Contents
Chapter 1 Geometrical illusions 001
 1.1 Müller-Lyer illusion and Ponzo illusion 002
 1.2 Ebbinghaus illusion and Delboeuf illusion 004
 1.3 Jastrow illusion 006
 1.4 Oppel Kundt illusion 008
 1.5 Fick illusion and overestimation of upper visual fields 010
 1.6 Poggendorff illusion 012
 1.7 Giovanelli illusion and gravity-lens illusion 014
 1.8 Zõllner illusion and Fraser illusion 016
 1.9 Café Wall illusion 020
 1.10 Curvature illusion 022
 1.11 Spiral illusion 024
 1.12 Barrel illusion 026
 1.13 Figural aftereffect 028

Chapter 2 Brightness/lightness illusions 031
 2.1 Simultaneous brightness contrast 032
 2.2 Contrast contrast, brightness assimilation 036
 2.3 Chevreul illusion, Mach band, Craik-O'Brien-Cornsweet effect 038
 2.4 Bullseye figure 042
 2.5 White's effect 044
 2.6 Adelson's illusions and grating induction 046
 2.7 Hermann grid illusion 050
 2.8 Bergen illusion 052
 2.9 Pinna's brightness illusions 054

Chapter 3 Color illusions 057
 3.1 Color contrast 058
 3.2 Color assimilation and "saturation contrast" 062
 3.3 Remote color contrast and remote color assimilation 064
 3.4 Munker illusion 066
 3.5 Monier-Shevell illusion 068
 3.6 Chromatic afterimage 070
 3.7 McCollough effect 072
 3.8 Subjective color 074
 3.9 Color constancy 076

Chapter 4 Anomalous motion illusions 079
 4.1 Ouchi illusion 080
 4.2 Hine illusion 086
 4.3 Pinna illusion 090
 4.4 Rotating illusion with line drawing 094
 4.5 Four-color illusions 096
 4.6 Latency-dependent illusion 100
 4.7 Speed-dependent illusion 104
 4.8 Fraser-Wilcox illusion 106
 4.9 Central drift illusion 110
 4.10 Op effect and its aftereffect 112

Chapter 5 Visual completion 115
 5.1 Kanizsa figure and abutting gratings 116
 5.2 Ehrenstein illusion and neon color spreading 120
 5.3 Pincushion grid illusion 124
 5.4 Varin figure 126
 5.5 Visual phantoms 128
 5.6 Dynamic neon color spreading 130
 5.7 Watercolor illusion 132
 5.8 Illusions at the blind spot 134

Chapter 6 Extinction illusions 137
 6.1 Troxler effect 138
 6.2 Extinction illusion 140
 6.3 Motion-induced blindness 142

Chapter 7 Stereopsis and spatial vision 145
 7.1 Depth illusion by overshadowing 146
 7.2 Perceptual transparency 148
 7.3 Crater illusion 150
 7.4 Depth-reversible figure 152
 7.5 Stereogram 154
 7.6 Stereopsis of subjective contours 156
 7.7 Wallpaper illusion and stereo capture 158
 7.8 Chromostereopsis 160
 7.9 Slope illusion 162
 7.10 Ames room 164
 7.11 Penrose triangle and endless stairs 166

Chapter 8 Hidden images 169
 8.1 Hidden letters 170
 8.2 Hidden image followed by deterioration and Mooney face 172
 8.3 Hidden image depending on good continuation 174
 8.4 Hidden image utilizing figure-ground reversion and whole-part reversion 176
 8.5 Hybrid images 178
 8.6 Hidden image depending on conjuncture search 180
 8.7 Change blindness 182

Chapter 9 Face illusions 185
 9.1 Thatcher illusion 186
 9.2 Wollaston illusion 188
 9.3 TV illusions 190
 9.4 Bloodshot illusion and uncanny valley 192
 9.5 Hollow mask illusion 194
 9.6 Overestimation of reversed face and knocked-face illusion 196
 9.7 Predominance of mouth and eyebrows over eyes for expression 198

Chapter 10 What is visual illusion? 201
 10.1 "Illusion", "effect" and "phenomenon" 202
 10.2 History of visual illusions 206
 10.3 Classification of visual illusions 212

References 218
Index 233


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