Silencing

Silencing is a visual illusion in which a set of objects that change in luminance, hue, size, or shape appears to stop changing when it moves. It was discovered by Jordan Suchow[2] and George Alvarez[3] of Harvard University, and described in a paper published in Current Biology.[4] Silencing won the Neural Correlate Society's "Best visual illusion of the year contest" in 2011.[5]

This article is about silencing in vision. For silencing in politics, see censorship. For silencing in genetics, see gene silencing. For the idiomatic use, see bribery. For the extreme colloquial variant, see murder.
This is the first frame of a video demonstration[1] of silencing.

References
  1. Demonstrations of silencing
  2. Jordan Suchow is online at http://jwsu.ch/ow/
  3. George Alvarez is online at http://visionlab.harvard.edu/Members/George/Welcome.html
  4. Suchow, J.W., & Alvarez, G.A. (2011). Motion silences awareness of visual change. Current Biology. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2010.12.019
  5. "Best Illusion of 2011 Reveals Visual Quirk". Live Science. 10 May 2011.

See also
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