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IT is becoming increasingly clear that the visual perception of form involves the interaction of a number of parallel computing or ‘image-processing’ operations. Stimuli which preferentially excite one or other of the neural computing networks concerned can give rise to visual anomalies indicative of the way in which the optical information is normally broken down.
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MACKAY, D. Dynamic Distortions of Perceived Form. Nature 203, 1097 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2031097a0
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