Here’s why this image is driving everyone mad—and what your answer says about you.
, she’s found that with the exact same level of physical luminance, a corner is going to look brighter than a straight edge or the soft curve of a circle. “So the perceptual result” of the Coffer Illusion, she says, “is that corners are more salient than non-corners.”
Plus, we may just see more rectangular shapes than we do circles, says Kyle Mathewson, Ph.D., a neuroscientist in the psychology department at the University of Alberta. “What we see when we look around the world is influenced heavily by what we have already seen in our past,” he tellsBut our past may also explain why some people see the 16 circles in the Coffer Illusion right away.
Since the Coffer Illusion is 14 years old, it’s possible you were exposed to it a long time ago and forgot about it, but still remembered the circles were there when you saw it again, she says. She points to ato see it going forward.You can prompt someone to see the circles in the Coffer Illusion in several ways. Like the Dalmatian example, you can superimpose dotted lines where the circles are supposed to go, and then turn them off.
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