This study focuses on a configurational coincidence among six different illusions, two being motion illusions (reversed phi movement and phi movement), two being binocular stereo effects (Anstis-Rogers type and Gregory-Heard type), one being a position illusion (Gregory-Heard illusion), and one being an orientation illusion (Café-Wall-like tilt illusion). The stimuli of these six illusions or e...

Embodied self-motion illusions (“vection”) have long fascinated both researchers and laypeople. With the increasing quality and affordability of immersive virtual reality (VR) and tele-operation/tele-robotics interfaces, there is also increasing interest in providing compelling sensations of self-motions to create more life-like and convincing experiences [4, 13, 21]. Whereas most research on s...

Idiopathic synesthesia, a neurological condition in which a stimulus in one sense generates a concurrent experience in a different sense, is often considered an example of multisensory integration. Consequently it has been suggested that synesthetes should experience multisensory illusions more consistently and compellingly than typical participants. To test this we measured the sound induced f...

Much debate has arisen over how to account for the pattern of effects of visual illusions on action - that is, the findings that illusions affect actions in some circumstances but not others. I propose that this pattern can best be explained by postulating that visual illusions affect the planning of actions but do not affect the on-line control of actions. Strong evidence for this viewpoint co...

A visual illusion refers to a percept that is different in some aspect from the physical stimulus. Illusions are a powerful non-invasive tool for understanding the neurobiology of vision, telling us, indirectly, how the brain processes visual stimuli. There are some neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by visual deficits. Surprisingly, just a few studies investigated illusory perception i...

It is generally assumed that the way people assess the relationship between a cause and an outcome is closely related to the actual evidence existing about the co-occurrence of these events. However, people's estimations are often biased, and this usually translates into illusions of causality. Some have suggested that such illusions could be the result of previous knowledge-based expectations....

Abstract Data relevant to the ‘filled-duration illusion’, claim that filled intervals appear last longer than unfilled ones of same real duration, are reviewed. A distinction is made between divided-time studies (where an empty interval has one or more brief dividing stimulus inside it) and filled-duration with some continuous event). Divided durations ones, effect grows number dividers, althou...