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MACKAY1 rediscovered a striking experimentally produced visual hallucination. After inspection of stationary black-and-white stripes, a uniform test field is apparently filled with particles in chaotic streaming motion at right angles to the orientation of the stripes2. A great deal has since been discovered about pattern-analysing channels in the human brain, and much of this information has been gained from the study of visual illusions and after-effects. The streaming hallucination, however, has never been properly explained3, and is now not much more than a curiosity in the textbooks. In this paper an explicit model of the streaming after-effect is proposed, and from it some new subjective after-effects are derived.
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GEORGESON, M. Antagonism between channels for pattern and movement in human vision. Nature 259, 413–415 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/259413a0
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