Illusory shrinkage of objects under backward masking.

Iperception

Department of Psychology, Glendon College, North York, ON, Canada; CVR, York University, North York, ON, Canada; Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.

Published: December 2024

Backward masking is a powerful phenomenon that can reduce, often to zero, the visibility of targets. Here, we show that when the masking is less than completely effective so that the target remains visible, the masking has other effects, specifically reducing the perceived size of the target.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11625935PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20416695241304655DOI Listing

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