Are the Obtuse Angles the Key Components of the Poggendorff Illusion?
- 1 April 1981
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perception
- Vol. 10 (2) , 165-172
- https://doi.org/10.1068/p100165
Abstract
An experiment is reported which confirms and extends a previous finding that amputations of the Poggendorff figure do not necessarily result in large positive effects with obtuse-angle stimuli, and small or even negative effects with acute-angle stimuli. Indeed, the acute-angle effects found were significantly greater than the obtuse-angle effects, and the full Poggendorff error was not explicable in terms of the linear summation of the component-angle effects. An ‘alignment displacement effect’ reported earlier by Hotopf and Obonai was shown to occur, but could not be an important component of the Poggendorff illusion.Keywords
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