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Charpentier bands
Illusory black spokes that are seen when a black disc with a white sector is rotated slowly. [Named after the French physician (Pierre Marie) Augustin Charpentier (1852–1916) who discussed them]
cognitive illusion
An illusion in the cognitive domain, one of the best known examples being the size-weight illusion, although it is also a tactile illusion. See also experimentally induced false memory, ...
Ernst Heinrich Weber
(1795–1878) German physiologist and psychologistWeber was the eldest of three brothers who all made important contributions to science. He was born at Wittenberg in Germany and became a professor at ...
size–weight illusion Reference library
Richard L. Gregory
The Oxford Companion to the Mind (2 ed.)
Lifting weights was a favourite activity of experimental psychology in its early days, but now, although these experiments involve much of interest, they are unfashionable and are seldom ...
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