About the Book
This book consists of articles from Wikia. Pages: 57. Chapters: Optical illusions, Sensation and perception journals, Sensory thresholds, Ames room, Ames trapezoid, Ames trapezoidal window illusion, Anaglyph image, Apparent movement, Autokinetic illusion, Autostereogram, Barberpole illusion, Benham's top, Beta movement, Bezold-Brucke shift, Bezold Effect, Blivet, Bridget Riley, Cafe wall illusion, Convergence micropsia, Cornsweet illusion, Ebbinghaus illusion, Ehrenstein's brightness illusion, Ehrenstein's square illusion, Ehrenstein illusion, Flash lag illusion, Fraser spiral illusion, Grid illusion, Hering grid, Hering illusion, Hermann grid illusion, Hollow-Face illusion, Illusory contours, Impossible cube, Impossible object, Impossible trident illusion, Kinephantom, Kinetic screen effect, Lilac chaser, Muller-Lyer illusion, Mach band, Mach bands, Mario Ponzo, McCollough effect, McCullough effect, Missing square puzzle, Moon illusion, Motion aftereffect, Motion induced blindness, Necker cube, Orbison illusion, Penrose stairs, Penrose triangle, Peripheral drift illusion, Phi phenomenon, Piston effect, Poggendorff illusion, Ponzo illusion, Pulfrich effect, Purkinje effect, Rubin vase, Same color, Same color illusion, Sander illusion, Size-weight illusion, Stereogram, Stereoscope, Swept-plane display, Temporal aliasing, Tunnel effect, Wagon-wheel effect, White's illusion, Wundt illusion, Epicritic sensibility, Sensory ecology, Synaesthesia, Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, Chemical Senses, Debating Chamber, Notable psychologists, Perception, Vision Research, Absolute threshold, Auditory thresholds, Olfactory thresholds, Recognition threshold, Terminal threshold, Vibrotactile thresholds. Excerpt: An Ames room is a distorted room that is used to create an optical illusion. It was invented by American ophthalmologist Adelbert Ames, Jr. in 1946 based on a concept by Hermann Helmholtz. An Ames room is constructed so that from the front it appears to be an ordi...
