<div dir="ltr">here is a nice paper looking at the neural basis of inter-individual differences in apparent motion: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21885284">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21885284</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-02-13 15:08 GMT+01:00 Andrei Gorea <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrei.gorea@parisdescartes.fr" target="_blank">andrei.gorea@parisdescartes.fr</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Richard Gregory tried once (in his own opinion, not quite successfully)
to classify the illusions (Phil.Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B (1997) 352,
1121-1128; TICS (1997, 1(5) 190-193). It is clear that Müller-Lyer is not
of the same type as the motion after-effect. In fact, what an illusion is
remains an undecided (philosophical?) question (see Michael Morgan,
<i>The space between our ears</i>, Oxford UP, 2003).<br><br>
I do not see how a person who doesn't experience the M-L illusion would
not experience a MAE. Is the latter an "illusion". If yes, then
everything is, so that "not experiencing <i>anything</i>" is to
be blind, deaf, etc.<br><br>
Andrei<div><div class="h5"><br><br>
<br>
At 14:34 13/02/2017, Tom Freeman wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite" class="m_-2728484094532738616cite">As Qaisim says, individual
differences in illusions/perceptual biases have been neglected (as IDs in
perception have in general).<br><br>
Grist to the mill: Georgie Powell and I have just published an account of
individual differences in two well-known motion illusions, based on
differences in certain features of motion priors, as well as differences
in motion sensitivity.<br><br>
<a href="http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797616665351" target="_blank">
http://journals.sagepub.com/<wbr>doi/full/10.1177/<wbr>0956797616665351</a><br><br>
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To: Qasim Zaidi <<a href="mailto:qz@sunyopt.edu" target="_blank">qz@sunyopt.edu</a>>; <a href="mailto:moorek@arcadia.edu" target="_blank">moorek@arcadia.edu</a><br>
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Subject: Re: [visionlist] immunity from illusions (particularly visual
illusions)<br><br>
Dear All<br>
We just recently reported that there are few significant correlations
between illusion magnitudes:
<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27919676" target="_blank">
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/<wbr>pubmed/27919676</a><br>
Thus, maybe just an instantiation of variability......<br>
All the best<br>
Michael<br><br>
Qasim Zaidi wrote:<br>
> There are individual differences, but they have not been much
studied <br>
> until the recent push by Jeremy Willmer at VSS.<br>
><br>
> I had a brilliant undergraduate at Columbia, who went on to be a
star <br>
> grad student at MIT, has done start-ups, been CTO of multiple <br>
> companies, won an Emmy, etc etc, and he had no simultaneous
brightness <br>
> or color induction, as measured by objective methods (nulling on a
<br>
> 2AFC adaptive staircase). He was also a meticulous observer in
motion <br>
> experiments, where he saw all kinds of effects.<br>
><br>
> You may want to see what else is different about these
students. I <br>
> suspect that they will be normal on low level detection and <br>
> discrimination experiments, but that may still be worth
checking.<br>
><br>
> Cheers<br>
> QZ<br>
><br>
> Qasim Zaidi PhD<br>
> SUNY Distinguished Professor<br>
><br>
> Graduate Center for Vision Research,<br>
> State University of New York College of Optometry,<br>
> 33 West 42nd St, New York, NY 10036.<br>
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>
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><br>
> *"Dr. Katherine Moore" <<a href="mailto:moorek@arcadia.edu" target="_blank">moorek@arcadia.edu</a> <br>
>
<<a href="mailto:moorek@arcadia.edu" target="_blank">
mailto:moorek@arcadia.edu</a>>><br>
> writes:*<br>
> Dear vision experts,<br>
><br>
><br>
> I was hoping some of you could help me out with something that made
me <br>
> curious all of last semester. Last semester was about the fifth time
<br>
> I've taught Sensation & Perception. Even though my classes are
small <br>
> (less than 25 students), each time I teach this course I have a
<br>
> student or two who is unusual in some sensory way -- just one
working <br>
> eye, synesthesia, no sense of smell, blind, prosopagnosia, etc.<br>
><br>
><br>
> This past semester I had two students who did not experience
illusions <br>
> (out of just 10 students!) One of them truly did not experience any
of <br>
> the illusions. Another did not experience the vast majority of them.
<br>
> We mostly did visual illusions, but among the few auditory illusions
<br>
> we did, these students didn't experience them either. I have no
reason <br>
> to think the students were lying about it--they are very sincere
people.<br>
> And they both had trouble with an assignment that required students
to <br>
> view some new illusions, describe what they saw and what was really
<br>
> happening, and explain the illusion. These two students didn't see
<br>
> what the rest of the class saw, and only saw "what was really
happening."<br>
><br>
><br>
> The illusions spanned the course, which is to say they touched upon
<br>
> many different causes. For example, the Hermann grid variations,
<br>
> including the "disappearing dots" one that went viral this
summer/fall <br>
> were affected, as well as the color constancy and size constancy
ones <br>
> like the checkershadow illusion, Ames room, etc.<br>
><br>
><br>
> What do you all know about this, like what the cause could be for
this <br>
> immunity from illusions of many kinds, or individual variation in
the <br>
> experience of illusions?<br>
><br>
><br>
> Best,<br>
> Katherine<br>
><br>
> Katherine S Moore<br>
> Assistant Professor of Psychology<br>
> Arcadia University<br>
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