>Mike Scoles wrote:
Ron Blue posted the variation on the Hermann grid earlier this year. I
think his explanation had something to do with correlational opponent
processes.
I wonder--and perhaps I should go to the lab to find out--would the
dancing dots be seen (as stationary?) if only brief exposure was
allowed?<
When I was at Hendrix College, my colleague there, Chris Spatz, used to
refer to the explanation of this illusion as "The Anti-Mr. Rogers Effect: When
neurons fire, they inhibit their neighbors."
Retta Poe
Department of Psychology
Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, Ky. 42101
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