Moon Illusion: An Event in Imaginary Space

22 February 1963

journal article
Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 139 (3556) , 750-752
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.139.3556.750

Abstract

The illusion was obtained with artificial moons viewed against a luminous ceiling, and also with an imaginary ceiling induced by first showing a luminous ceiling and then removing it before the moons were introduced.

Keywords

REMOVING
MOONS
IMAGINARY SPACE
EVENT IN IMAGINARY
MOON ILLUSION
LUMINOUS
CEILING

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