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The Perception of Apparent Motion

When the motion of an intermittently seen object is ambiguous, the visual system resolves confusion by applying some tricks that reflect a built-in knowledge of properties of the physical world

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Vilayanur S. Ramachandran is a professor and director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego. Ramachandran's accolades include receiving the Henry Dale Prize of the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London, giving the 2003 Reith Lectures for the BBC and participating in the 2012 Gifford Lectures in Glasgow.

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 254 Issue 6This article was originally published with the title “The Perception of Apparent Motion” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 254 No. 6 (), p. 102
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0686-102