The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions

Arthur Shapiro, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at American University, Washington, D.C.Dejan Todorovic, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at Belgrade University, Belgrade, Serbia.

• How to Use the Online TextbookIntroductionPart I: Introductory General Chapters1. Early history of illusions - Nicholas J. Wade2. Cross-cultural Studies of Illusions - J.B. Dergowski3. Visual Illusion in a Comparative Perspective - Kazuo Fujita, Noriyuki Nakamura, and Sota Watanabe4. An Analysis of Theoretical Approaches to Geometrical-Optical Illusions - Barbara Gillam5. Visual Illusions in Action - Nicola Bruno6. Motion Illusions in Man and Machine - Cornelia Fermüller7. The Visual World as Illusion: The Ones We Know and the Ones We Don't - Stephen Grossberg8. Visual Illusions? - Jan Koenderink9. Why the Concept of "Visual Illusions" is Misleading - Dale Purves, William T. Wojtach, R. Beau Lotto10. Where have all the illusions gone? -- A critique of the concept of illusion - Brian RogersPart II: Geometrical11. Weighted positional averaging in the illusions of the Müller-Lyer type - Aleksandr Bulatov12. The Bar Cross Ellipse Illusion - Gideon P. Caplovitz, Alex Boswell, and Kyle Killebrew13. The Spinning Ellipse Speed Illusion - Gideon Paul Caplovitz, Po-Jang Hsieh, Peter J. Kohler, and Katharine B. Porter14. The Ames-window illusion and its variations - Marcel de Heer and Thomas V. Papathomas15. Three-Dimensional Müller-Lyer Illusion: Theoretical and Practical Implications - Patricia R. DeLucia16. Why do Hills Look so Steep? - Frank H. Durgin and Zhi Li17. "Shape from Smear": An Illusion of 3D Shape, Made by Finger-Painting with Noise - Roland W. Fleming and Daniel Holtmann-Rice18. Geometric-optical illusions under isoluminance? - Kai Hamburger, Thorsten Hansen, and Karl R. Gegenfurtner19. The Picture Surface Illusion: 3D Biases 2D - Sherief Hammad and John M. Kennedy20. Cast Shadow Illusions - Daniel Kersten and Pascal Mamassian21. Leaning Tower Illusion - Frederick A. A. Kingdom, Ali Yoonessi, and Elena Gheorghiu22. The Invisible Saddle, or the Cap-or-Cup Illusion - Jan Koenderink, Andrea van Doorn, and Johan Wagemans23. Symmetry and uprightness in visually-perceived shapes - Lydia Maniatis24. Bath Tub Illusion - Lydia Maniatis25. The Pitchroom Illusion: How High is Up? - Leonard Matin, Ethel Matin, Wenxun Li, Todd E. Hudson, and Adam Shavit26. Geometric Illusions in the Human Face and Body - Kazunori Morikawa27. Dynamic Illusory Size Contrast: enhanced relative size effects due to stimulus motion - Ryan E.B. Mruczek, Christopher D. Blair, Lars Strother, and Gideon P. Caplovitz28. Size Contrast and assimilation in the Delboeuf and Ebbinghaus illusions - Ryan E.B. Mruczek, Christopher D. Blair, Lars Strother, and Gideon P. Caplovitz29. The Occlusion, Configural Shape, and Shrinkage Illusions - Stephen E. Palmer and Karen B. Schloss30. Reverse-perspective art and objects - Illusions in depth and motion - Thomas V. Papathomas31. The New Moon Illusion - Brian Rogers and Stuart Anstis32. Geometrical errors are the cost of maintaining the luminance contrast polarity - Sergio Roncato33. Antigravity Slopes: A new type of visual illusion - Kokichi Sugihara34. The geometrical-optical illusions of J.J. Oppel - Dejan Todorovic35. Oppel-Kundt Illusion - Jill Wackermann36. The Shifted-Chessboard Pattern as Paradigm of the Exegesis of Geometrical-optical Illusions - Gerald WestheimerPart III: Brightness/Lightness/Color37. A Layered Experience of Lightness and Color - Barton L. Anderson38. Color & luminance: afterimages, combinations and flicker - Stuart Anstis39. The White effect - Barbara Blakeslee and Mark E. McCourt40. The Dungeon Illusion - Paola Bressan and Peter Kramer41. The contrast contrast illusion - Charles Chubb, Joshua A. Solomon, and George Sperling42. Illusory Color Spread from Apparent Motion - Carol M. Cicerone and Donald D. Hoffman43. The reversed contrast Necker cube - Alessandra Galmonte and Tiziano Agostini44. Changing the Chevreul Illusion by a Background Luminance Ramp - János Geier and Mariann Hudák45. The curved grid non-illusions: eliminating Hermann's spots and Lingelbach's scintillation - János Geier and Mariann Hudák46. The Staircase Gelb Illusion - Alan Gilchrist47. The Breathing Light Illusion: illusory size and brightness variation induced by motion - Simone Gori, Enrico Giora, and D. Alan Stubbs48. Large Shift in Brightness Induced by Motion in Context - Sang Wook Hong49. The Chromatic Mach Card - Anya Hurlbert50. Colour Assimilation - Frederick A. A. Kingdom51. When light looks like paint - Frederick A. A. Kingdom52. The Scintillating Grid - Bernd Lingelbach53. Second-order Mach Bands, Chevreul, and Craik-O'Brien-Cornsweet Illusions - Zhong-Lin Lu and George Sperling54. Vasarely's Nested Squares and the Alternating Brightness Star illusion - Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik55. Grating Induction - Mark E. McCourt and Barbara Blakeslee56. Illusory variations in apparent dot brightness induced by density modulations - Jeffrey B. Mulligan57. On the Watercolor Illusion - Baingio Pinna58. The Chinese lantern illusion - Sergio Roncato, Sandro Bettella, and Clara Casco59. The Wedding Cake Illusion: Interaction of Geometric and Photometric Factors in Induced Contrast and Assimilation - Branka Spehar and Colin WG Clifford60. Filling-in between contours - Rob van Lier61. The glare effect - Daniele Zavagno and Olga DaneykoPart IV: Motion-Based62. Improbable Illusory Contours - Barton L. Anderson63. Low-level motion illusions - Stuart Anstis64. High-level organization of motion: Ambiguous, Primed, Sliding, & Flashed - Stuart Anstis65. Backscroll illusion - Kiyoshi Fujimoto66. The Rotating Tilted Lines Illusion: rotation instead of expansion, a peculiar case of motion misperception - Simone Gori67. The enigmatic Enigma illusion - Kai Hamburger68. The Fraser-Wilcox illusion and its extension - Akiyoshi Kitaoka69. Induced motion - Jasmin Léveillé and Arash Yazdanbakhsh70. The Freezing Rotation Illusion - Erika N. Lorincz and Max R. Dürsteler71. Second-order Reversed Phi - Zhong-Lin Lu and George Sperling72. Attention-generated apparent motion - Zhong-Lin Lu and George Sperling73. Two-stroke apparent motion - George Mather74. On the Pinna Illusion - Baingio Pinna75. Color Wagon Wheel - Arthur Shapiro76. The Aperture Problem: Illusions arising during the integration and segmentation of motion within and across apertures - Maggie Shiffrar77. Paths of Apparent Human Motion Follow Motor Constraints - Maggie Shiffrar and Christina Joseph78. The Motion Standstill Illusion - George Sperling, Son-Hee Lyu, Chia-Huei Tseng, and Zhong-Lin Lu79. Objectless Motion: The Pedestalled Motion Paradigm - George Sperling and Zhong-Lin Lu80. Silencing the awareness of change - Jordan W. Suchow and George A. Alvarez81. The Kayahara Silhouette Illusion - Nikolaus F. Troje82. The motion aftereffect - Frans A.J. Verstraten and Peter J. Bex83. High phi and ghost phi: Extreme motion illusions - Mark Wexler84. Stereokinetic phenomena - Mario Zanforlin85. Motion illusions in static patterns - Johannes M. ZankerPart V: Faces86. The Venus Effect - Marco Bertamini and Richard Latto87. The Hollow-mask Illusion and Variations - Thomas V. Papathomas88. The Illusion of Sex - Richard Russell89. The Bogart Effect - Sharon Gilad-Gutnick, Rohan Varma, and Pawan Sinha90. The Presidential Illusion - Sharon Gilad-Gutnick and Pawan Sinha91. About Face: The Margaret Thatcher Illusion - Peter Thompson92. The Mona Lisa effect - Dejan Todorovic93. The Wobbling Face Illusion - Sayako Ueda and Akiyoshi Kitaoka94. Adaptation aftereffects in the perception of faces - Michael A. WebsterPart VI: Grouping and Organization95. Ambiguous Figures Moving Forward - Lori J. Bernstein96. The Scramble Illusion: Texture Metamers - Charles Chubb, Joseph Darcy, Michael S. Landy, John Econopouly, Jong-Ho Nam, Dan Bindman, and George Sperling97. Amodally completed angles - Walter Gerbino98. Subjective Contours - Barbara Gillam99. The Ternus Effect - Elisabeth Hein100. Two sinusoids: 6 - 1 perceptions - Jan Kremlacek101. The Illusions of Numerosity - Riccardo Luccio102. The Aperture Capture Illusion - Evan M. Palmer and Philip J. KellmanPart VII: Attention103. Motion-induced blindness (MIB) - Yoram Bonneh104. Inattentional blindness and the illusion of attention - Daniel J. SimonsPart VIII: Binocular Vision/Stereopsis105. Binocular rivalry: The illusion of disappearance - Randolph Blake106. Stereo Rotation Standstill and Related Illusions - Max R. Dürsteler and Erika N. Lorincz107. The graph-paper effect: a moving, illusory, stereoscopic texture - Mark GeorgesonPart IX: Adaptation108. Adaptation to brightness change, contours, jogging, and apparent motion - Stuart Anstis109. The Color Dove illusion- chromatic filling in effect following a spatial-temporal edge - Yuval Barkan and Hedva Spitzer110. Blur adaptation and induction - Michael A. WebsterPart X: Conflicting Scale or Other Information111. Hybrid Image Illusion - Aude Oliva and Philippe G. Schyns112. Contrast Asynchronies - Arthur Shapiro113. Hidden Images - Nicholas J. WadePart XI: Multisensory114. The three-dimensional Necker cube - Nicola Bruno115. The McGurk Effect and the Primacy of Multisensory Perception - James W. Dias, Theresa C. Cook, and Lawrence D. RosenblumIndex

To sum up, the insights throughout the compendium are impressive and wide-ranging. ... All in all, a timely and highlycompetent work.