The Motion Aftereffect

The Motion Aftereffect

Anstis, Stuart, Frans Verstraten, and George Mather
Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2, no. 3 (1998): 111-117
https://doi.org/10.1016/S1364-6613(98)01142-5

Find a small waterfall and gaze steadily at a rock in the middle of the fall for about 30 s. Now transfer your gaze to the river bank, and you will find that it appears to be streaming upwards. You are experiencing the motion aftereffect (MAE), and you have adapted your neural motion-detectors. If you cannot find a waterfall, read Box 1. It is over 30 years since the only book to date to be devoted to the MAE was first published, although study of the motion aftereffect has recently seen an upsurge of interest.
— Anstis et al.
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