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FOR more than a century the various optico -geometric illusions have presented a challenge and been a source of controversy. Physiologists, philosophers and psychologists have produced a wide range of theories, mostly ad hoc and all to some degree unsatisfactory, the Poggendorff illusion (Fig. 1) having received its fair share of this attention.
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GREEN, R., HOYLE, E. The Poggendorff Illusion as a Constancy Phenomenon. Nature 200, 611–612 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/200611a0
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