The size-weight illusion in 2-D nonlinear psychophysics

An extension of unidimensional nonlinear psychophysics is postulated by using forms of crosscoupling between the parameters of the two single-channel recursions, which have already been shown to model some perceptual phenomena. The size-weight illusion is shown to be reproducible in the topology of its relations, and it is suggested that some so-called illusions are in fact the natural consequences of nonlinear cross-coupling. The conditions that produce the illusion involve partially compensating the cross-coupling of sensory dimensions, and a second equilibrium with no cross-coupling, resembling simpler veridical perception, also exists in the behavior of some subjects.

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