TY - JOUR
T1 - A Mueller-Lyer Illusion Induced by Selective Attention
AU - Tsal, Yehoshua
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to the Center for Cognitive Science at Brown University. I wish to thank Shimon Ullman, John Duncan, Richard B. Millward, Billy R. Wooten, Stephen W. Lehmkule and an anonymous reviewer for their helpful comments on an earlier draft.
PY - 1984/5
Y1 - 1984/5
N2 - Subjects estimated the length of a horizontal line which was flanked by oblique angles pointing both inside and outside (this figure would be created by superimposing the wings-in and wings-out figures of the Mueller-Lyer illusion). Ignoring the outside wings resulted in an underestimation of the line length of comparable magnitude to that obtained for the wings-in Mueller-Lyer figure. Ignoring the inside wings caused an overestimation of the line length only when the inner and outer wings were of non-corresponding orientations. These results emphasize the role of cognitive factors in the Mueller-Lyer illusion.
AB - Subjects estimated the length of a horizontal line which was flanked by oblique angles pointing both inside and outside (this figure would be created by superimposing the wings-in and wings-out figures of the Mueller-Lyer illusion). Ignoring the outside wings resulted in an underestimation of the line length of comparable magnitude to that obtained for the wings-in Mueller-Lyer figure. Ignoring the inside wings caused an overestimation of the line length only when the inner and outer wings were of non-corresponding orientations. These results emphasize the role of cognitive factors in the Mueller-Lyer illusion.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0021434599
U2 - 10.1080/14640748408402162
DO - 10.1080/14640748408402162
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AN - SCOPUS:0021434599
SN - 0272-4987
VL - 36
SP - 319
EP - 333
JO - Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology
JF - Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology
IS - 2
ER -