People Stare at a Pattern of Narrow Black-And-White Lines for a Minute

question 60

Multiple Choice

People stare at a pattern of narrow black-and-white lines for a minute and then look at some wider lines. The second set of lines appears even wider than usual to them. Why?

• A) Staring at the first set of lines led to the phenomenon of induced motion.
• B) Staring at the first set of lines produced sensory adaptation.
• C) Staring at the first set of lines fatigued certain feature detectors.
• D) Staring at the first set of lines changed these people's psychophysical function.

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