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Size contrast occurs in numerous configurations where a test figure appears apparently larger when surrounded by small elements and apparently smaller when surrounded by large elements. Using the Ebbinghaus illusion, the magnitude of this effect is shown to vary as a function of apparent similarity between test and inducing element.
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This research was supported in part by a grant from the National Research Council of Canada. Some of the data in this paper was reported at the the Psychonomic Society meetings, 1973, held in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Coren, S., Miller, J. Size contrast as a function of figural similarity. Perception & Psychophysics 16, 355–357 (1974). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03203955
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