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Marco Bertamini1, Akiyoshi Kitaoka2
1Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK.
Abstract:
We compare two versions of two known phenomena, the Curvature blindness and the Kite mesh illusions, to highlight how similar manipulations lead to blindness to curvature and blindness to illusory curvature, respectively. The critical factor is a change in luminance polarity; this factor interferes with the computation of curvature along the contour, for both real and illusory curvature.
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