Spatial filtering and the Zollner-Judd geometrical illusion: Further studies
Spatial filtering and the Zollner-Judd geometrical illusion: Further studies
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DOI:
10.1068/p241397
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发表时间:
1995-01-01
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影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
Maskell, SJ
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作者:
Earle, DC;Maskell, SJ
In a geometrical figure in which long vertical lines are each crossed by a series of short oblique lines, an illusory effect is obtained such that the orientations of the long lines are perceived as nonvertical and shifted away from the orientation of the oblique fines (the Zollner illusion), In addition, the vertical separation between the crossing (oblique) lines is perceived as less than that if the crossing lines are horizontal (the Judd illusion). It has previously been shown that these two effects are closely related, and a single-process account has been proposed in which both effects are explained by a computational model involving band-pass spatial filtering of the figure by means of difference-of-Gaussians (DOG) filters. Two arguments are presented against the latter account. First, in an opposite-contrast-polarity figure with, for example, white vertical lines and black crossing lines on a mid-grey background, the peaks in the DOG filter output are such as to predict the reversal of the Zollner-Judd effects. It is shown by demonstration that this prediction is disconfirmed, and that the normal effects are obtained. Second, it is shown that the normal Zollner-Judd effects are obtained in the absence of the long vertical lines, and in the presence of anomalous contours. The latter effects are also in contradiction to the band-pass-filtering model. These findings are discussed in relation to a dual-process account of the Zollner-Judd effects.