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Illusions have been used extensively in sensory physiology as an access to the functional organization of sensory systems. This is shown for example by MACH’s bands and his explanation of this phenomenon by a negative lateral retinal interaction. They are useful also in neurophysiology and many can be correlated with the activities of single neurons at different levels of processing (BAUM-GARTNER /I/; v.d.HEYDT et al./2/; PETERHANS et al./3/).
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Baumgartner, G., Peterhans, E., von der Heydt, R. (1987). Neuronal Mechanisms of the First, Second, and Third Order Contrast in the Visual System. In: Haken, H. (eds) Computational Systems — Natural and Artificial. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 38. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73089-4_3
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