The involvement of illusory contours in stroboscopic motion

Abstract

It was tested whether illusory contours, as they appear in the Ehrenstein figure, are able to contribute to stroboscopic motion in addition to the contribution of their inducing (real) contours. It was found that form information associated with illusory contours can be used by the stroboscopic motion mechanism. This is evidence that illusory contours can have functional effects that resemble those of real contours. © 1979 Psychonomic Society, Inc.