Stumbled across this site the other day. The text may be too academic for easy digestion, but I found the experiment/flash animation to be interesting.
source: Aurthur Shapiro
Two circles are alternating pulsations inside larger circles. One larger circle is white and the other circle is black. The pulsating circles fade from white to black and appear to alternate within the larger circles. However, this is the illusion, by turning off the larger circles the viewer realizes that the pulsating isn't alternating, but rather synchronous. The visual system is designed to detect contrast and this animation fools the system. Its pretty clever. Hope you check it out.
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