Silencing is a visual illusion in which a set of objects that change i
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appears to stop changing when it moves. It was discovered by Jordan Suchow and George Alvarez of Harvard University, and described in a paper published in ''Current Biology''. Silencing won the Neural Correlate Society's "Best visual illusion of the year contest" in 2011.
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See also
* Change blindness
Change blindness is a perceptual phenomenon that occurs when a change in a visual stimulus is introduced and the observer does not notice it. For example, observers often fail to notice major differences introduced into an image while it flickers ...
Optical illusions
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