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Abstract

When a striped disk moves across a flickering background, the stripes paradoxically seem to move faster than the disk itself. We attribute this new illusion to reverse-phi motion, which slows down the disk rim but does not affect the stripes.

Keywords

illusion motion position-shift reverse-phi

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Illusory Drifting within a Window That Moves across a Flickering Background

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