The inability of lateral inhibition to explain White's illusion suggests that some contrast effects are based in the cortex.
What is white's illusion?
- The perceptual phenomenon known as "White's illusion" occurs when two equiluminant gray patches are superimposed on a square-wave grating in black and white and appear to be of different luminosities.
- A test patch placed on the grating's dark stripe appears lighter than one placed on the stripe with light color.
- White's illusion is an optical illusion highlighting the fact that the same target luminance can elicit various perceptions of brightness in different
- White's illusion is a brightness illusion when specific stripes of a black and white grating is partially replaced by a gray rectangle.
- According to Novick, the Munker-White illusion is the cause of this distorted impression.
- Fundamentally, Novick claimed that the illusion is effective because "our acuity for shape is better than our acuity for color, which means that we see the shapes with more detail and the colors with less detail."
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