Exorcising the Double-Nail Illusion: Giving up the Ghost

1 December 1984

journal article
Published by SAGE Publications in Perception

Vol. 13 (6) , 753-758
https://doi.org/10.1068/p130753

Abstract

The principles of visual direction explain the double-nail illusion, without the concept of a ghost image. Also, the stimulus arrangement for the illusion is not perceptually ambiguous for the visual system as Krol and van de Grind claim.

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