Motion from occlusion

Stephen A. Engel; David A. Remus; Rajiv Sainath

doi:10.1167/6.5.9

Motion from occlusion

Stephen A. Engel, David A. Remus, Rajiv Sainath

Psychology (Twin Cities)

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Abstract

Vision uses specific image features or cues to infer physical properties of the world. Here, we use a novel illusion to show that occlusion, traditionally thought of as a cue to depth, is also a powerful cue to motion. A display of stacking disks that contains only occlusion as a cue to depth generates a vivid sense of movement that is likely computed in early or middle levels of visual processing.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	9
Pages (from-to)	649-652
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of vision
Volume	6
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1167/6.5.9
State	Published - May 10 2006

Keywords

Depth perception
Illusion
Illusory motion
Third-order motion

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