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zollner illusion

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Zollner illusion

[tsuhl-ner; Ger. tsœl-nuhr]
–noun Psychology.
a spatial illusion in which parallel lines intersected by short oblique lines are perceived as converging or diverging.

Origin:
1950–55; named after J. K. F. Zöllner, 19th-century German physicist
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