scholarly journals A new explanation for the Poggendorff illusion

1976 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Zanuttini
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2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 366-372
Author(s):  
S. I. Rychkova ◽  
R. I. Sandimirov ◽  
L. V. Kosobutskaya


2021 ◽  
Vol 206 ◽  
pp. 105095
Author(s):  
Philippe A. Chouinard ◽  
Kayla A. Royals ◽  
Oriane Landry


1976 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 309-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander E. Wilson ◽  
Alexander W. Pressey


1977 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. H. Day ◽  
R. G. Dickinson ◽  
M. K. Jory

Gregory (1972) has claimed that the Poggendorff misalignment effect occurs when the collinear obliques are separated by subjective rather than real contours. He used two figures to demonstrate this variant of the illusion. Two experiments to test the claim are reported. The first showed that apparent misalignment in one of the two original figures is no greater than that with two obliques alone (the oblique line effect), but misalignment in the other is greater than with two oblique lines and than with a control without subjective contours. The second experiment showed that apparent misalignment in the second figure was less than in two control figures without subjective contours. Since this reduced effect was probably due to the nature of the intersection between the oblique and a semi-circular element, the role of subjective contours remains unsettled.



1976 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry W. Mallenby


Perception ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 599-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross H Day ◽  
Erica J Stecher ◽  
Andrea L Parker

An explanation of the Poggendorff misalignment effect in terms of apparent contraction of interparallel extent resulting from the Müller-Lyer illusion was tested in three experiments. Three of the eight stimulus figures had oblique transversals outside the parallels in the usual way, three had them inside, and two were controls consisting of the transversals only. Müller-Lyer forms were differently delineated between the parallels for the inside-transversal and outside-transversal figures, and were not delineated in the control figures. In the first experiment apparent misalignment occurred in four of the six parallel-line figures and in neither of the controls. In the second experiment oblique extent between the parallels was underestimated in six of the eight figures and right-angle extent was overestimated in all of them. The results of the third experiment showed that right-angle (horizontal) extent between the parallels without transversals is estimated without significant error. The data from the three experiments do not support the interparallel-extent explanation of apparent misalignment. Instead, the results are interpreted in terms of independent perceptual compromises, one involving alignment of the transversals and the other the distance between them.



Author(s):  
Kai Hamburger ◽  
Thorsten Hansen ◽  
Karl R. Gegenfurtner

This chapter briefly introduces nine classical geometric-optical illusions. These include the Delboeuf illusion, the Ebbinghaus illusion, the Judd illusion, the Müller-Lyer illusion, the Ponzo illusion, the vertical illusion, the Hering illusion, the Poggendorff illusion, and the Zoellner illusion. It then demonstrates that they persist under different luminance conditions and under isoluminance. The empirical findings show that our conscious percept is similarly affected by luminance conditions and isoluminance, suggesting that joint contour processing (chromatic and luminance) may extend well beyond early visual areas. The chapter further discusses these concepts in terms of the magnocellular system, the parvocellular system, and the koniocellular system.



1975 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 111-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHUN CHIANG
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