When is an illusion not an illusion? An alternative view of the illusion concept

Autor: Brian Rogers
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Vol 16 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1662-5161
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.957740
Popis: What is an “illusion”? I would like to argue that (A) there is no coherent and meaningful definition of the word “illusion” and (B) the majority of the things we have previously labelled as “illusions” can be better categorised into three classes of perceptual effects: (i) those that should not be regarded as illusory according to any definition; (ii) those that are simply consequences of “how our perceptual systems work” and (iii) those that are a consequence of using artificial or impoverished stimulus situations.
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