2020
DOI: 10.1177/0301006620962279
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Abstract: Visual illusions have been a popular topic of study for a long time, but in recent years, a number of authors have questioned the coherence of this notion. This article deals in depth with ways in which illusions have been, could be, and should be defined and with various criticisms and different conceptions of the notion of illusions. After a review of definitions of illusions in the relevant literature, a more comprehensive but also more restrictive framework is presented, involving both veridicality and ill… Show more

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“…Some of them even explicitly emphasize it. For instance, Todorović ( 2020 ) finds that the main difference lies in the fact that optical illusions involve errors, while Rubin's vase does not:…”
Section: The Paper In a Nutshellmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Some of them even explicitly emphasize it. For instance, Todorović ( 2020 ) finds that the main difference lies in the fact that optical illusions involve errors, while Rubin's vase does not:…”
Section: The Paper In a Nutshellmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In other words, the notion of context effects may be more general than the notion of illusions. In the following, illustrations of three phenomena [resembling Rubin's vase] are presented, which involve strong context effects but do not quite fit the illusion scheme because they do not seem to involve errors (Todorović, 2020(Todorović, , p. 1183).…”
Section: The Paper In a Nutshellmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Thus a vigorous debate has been occurring within vision research recently over the extent to which our percepts are accurate, true and meaningful, and as to whether all -or some, or none -are illusory. (For example sceptical opinions are expressed by Koenderink, 2014;Rogers, 2014Rogers, , 2019Hoffman et al, 2015;Wagemans, 2015;Braddick, 2018;and Hoffman, 2019. Traditional views are supported by Todorović, 2014Todorović, , 2018Todorović, , 2020Maniatis, 2015;Rose, 2015, 2016, andin preparation-a;Tyler, 2016;Shapiro, 2018;and van Buren & Scholl, 2018. For overviews and collations see Hickok, 2015;Pinna & Reeves, 2017, Shapiro and Todorović, 2017, and Rose, 2018 An intuitive definition of illusions is that they are deviations of our percepts from the veridical representation of physical reality.…”
Section: The Metaphysics Of Perceptionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For instance, if one holds that our perception corresponds to an objective factual world, then illusions can be understood as a misperception or erroneous interpretation of reality. From this point of view, illusions exist because perception deviates from measurements of the physical world (Todorović, 2020), or the term is superfluous because illusory misperceptions can be shown to correspond to ecologically relevant information (Rogers, 2017(Rogers, , 2019 or empirically determined aspects of the physical world (Purves et al, 2017). If, on the other hand, one starts from the ontological position that our perception is a 'controlled hallucination' produced by the brain (Hoffman et al, 2015;Koenderink, 2010;Seth, 2019), then the term illusion is problematic because our perceptions can never be exact copies of reality (see Boring, 1942;Hochberg, 1964;Hoffman, 2019;James, 1890), and all our perceptions are to some extent illusory.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%