The line-motion illusion: attention or impletion?

When a brief lateral cue precedes an instantaneously presented horizontal line, observers report a sensation of motion in the line propagating from the cued end toward the uncued end. This illusion has been described as a measure of the facilitatory effects of a visual attention gradient (O. Hikosaka, S. Miyauchi, & S. Shimojo, 1993a). Evidence in the present study favors, instead, an account in which the illusion is the result of an impletion process that fills in interpolated events after the cue and the line are linked as successive states of a single object in apparent motion.

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