Pulfrich effect

noun

Pulfrich effect

noun

Etymology Named after German physicist Carl Pulfrich, who first described it in 1922.

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The psychophysical percept whereby lateral motion of an object in the field of view is interpreted by the visual cortex as having a depth component, due to a relative difference in signal timings between the two eyes.

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