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Stadler (1972) has reported two experiments which suggest that (a) the figural aftereffect bound to the retinal image of an inspection circle is weaker than the figural aftereffect bound to the spatial frame of reference, and (b) imagining an inspection circle can produce a figural aftereffect. The results of the seven experiments reported here indicate that these results are not replicable when using objective methods.
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Preparation of this paper was supported in part by grants to the author from the Sloan Foundation and the Colgate Research Council.
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Howard, R.B. Figural aftereffects as optical illusions? Failure to replicate two results. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 2, 392–394 (1973). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334424
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