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POGGENDORFF VISUAL ILLUSION [1 record]

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Record 1 1999-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Eye
DEF

The illusion that the two ends of a straight line segment passing behind an obscuring rectangle are offset when, in fact, they are aligned.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Oeil
DEF

Illusion visuelle dans laquelle les deux extrémités visibles d'un segment de droite oblique partiellement recouvert d'un rectangle ne semblent pas être dans le prolongement l'une de l'autre.

OBS

Source MVISI-F : Le nouveau dictionnaire de la vision par Michel Millodot, Médiacom Vision Éditeur, 1997.

Spanish

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