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THE after-effect of seen movement (sometimes known as the waterfall effect) is a well-known illusion in which steady viewing of a moving patterned surface is followed, on transfer of one's gaze to a stationary surface, by an apparent motion in the opposite direction. Pickersgill1 gives an exhaustive review of the literature.
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Pickersgill, Mary, Ph.D. thesis, Univ. Leeds (1959).
MacKay, D. M., Nature, 181, 507 (1958).
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ANSTIS, S., GREGORY, R., RUDOLF, N. et al. Influence of Stroboscopic Illumination on the After-effect of Seen Movement. Nature 199, 99–100 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/199099b0
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