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I produced several variants of "Rotating snakes" because this work seems to be preferred by many people.

since July 7, 2019


"Rotating snakes 2024"

Disks appear to rotate.

Copyright Akiyoshi Kitaoka 2024 (September 20)


"Rotating snakes 2024 #2"

Disks appear to rotate.

Copyright Akiyoshi Kitaoka 2024 (September 20)


Uesaki, M., Biswas, A., Ashida, H., & Maus, G. (2024). Blue-yellow combination enhances perceived motion in Rotating Snakes illusion. I-Perception, 15(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/20416695241242346


Copyright Akiyoshi Kitaoka 2023 (December 30)


Front. Psychol., 04 October 2019 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02220

Motion Illusions as Environmental Enrichment for Zoo Animals: A Preliminary Investigation on Lions (Panthera leo)

Barbara Regaiolli1, Angelo Rizzo1, Giorgio Ottolini1, Maria Elena Miletto Petrazzini2, Caterina Spiezio1 and Christian Agrillo3*

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02220/full


Bach M & Atala-Gérard L (2020) The Rotating Snakes Illusion is a straightforward consequence of non-linearity in arrays of standard motion detectors, i-Perception 11(5), 1–9

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2041669520958025


Gori, S., Agrillo, C., Dadda, M., & Bisazza, A. (2014). Do fish perceive illusory motion? Scientific Reports, 4: 6443, 1-6. doi: 10.1038/srep06443

"Herein, we show that fish perceive one of themost studied motion illusions, the Rotating Snakes. Fish responded similarly to real and illusory motion."

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep06443

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Agrillo, C., Gori, S., & Beran, M. J. (2015). Do rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) perceive illusory motion? Animal Cognition, 18 (4), 895-910. doi: 10.1007/s10071-015-0860-6

"These results suggest that some rhesus monkeys display a human-like perception of this motion illusion*, raising the possibility that the neurocognitive systems underlying motion perception may be similar between human and non-human primates."

*Rotating snakes illusion

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10071-015-0860-6

<March 14, 2020>



"Rotating snakes 2020"

Disks appear to rotate.

Copyright Akiyoshi Kitaoka 2020 (February 4)


How do you see?

— Akiyoshi Kitaoka (@AkiyoshiKitaoka) January 22, 2020

Regaiolli B, Rizzo A, Ottolini G, Miletto Petrazzini ME, Spiezio C and Agrillo C (2019) Motion Illusions as Environmental Enrichment for Zoo Animals: A Preliminary Investigation on Lions (Panthera leo). Front. Psychol. 10:2220. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02220

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02220/full

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"Floating Rotating snakes"

Disks appear to rotate.

Copyright Akiyoshi Kitaoka 2019 (July 7)


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