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What is the first type of visual illusion?
Distortions- a perceptual error
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What is an example of distortion?
The Muller-Lyer illusion- lines with different facing arrows and the one with the inward arrows looks like a shorter line even though they are the same length
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What is the second type of visual illusion?
Ambiguous figures- despite having the same input, the image can yield different interpretations
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What is an example of an ambiguous figure?
Rubin's vase- whether you see a vase in the middle of the image or two faces either side
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What is the third type of visual illusion?
Paradoxial figures- where you make assumptions about 3D structure
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What is an example of paradoxial figures?
The penrose triangle
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What is the fourth type of visual illusion?
Fictions- perceptions of an absent form
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What is an example of fictions?
Kanizsa triangle- a triangle being there when it isnt- a case of interposition
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