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[The name of Mario Ponzo (b. 1882), Italian psychologist.]
Ponzo illusion: an optical illusion in which two parallel straight lines of equal length appear to be of unequal length when seen side by side against a triangular background (such as a set of straight lines radiating from a single point and passing through the two parallel lines).
1942Jrnl. Exper. Psychol. XXX. 84 (heading) Experimental evidence for the electrical character of visual fields derived from a quantitative analysis of the Ponzo illusion. 1968Science 22 Mar. 1375/1 The Ponzo illusion increases in magnitude between childhood and adulthood. 1976Sci. Amer. Apr. 50/1 In the Ponzo illusion, although both vertical lines are the same length, the effect of the subjective triangle is to make the line at the left appear to be longer. |