Ambiguous Image
Ambiguous images are optical illusion images which exploit graphical similarities and other properties of visual system interpretation between two or more distinct image forms. These are famous for inducing the phenomenon of multistable perception. Multistable perception is the occurrence of an image being able to provide multiple, although stable, perceptions. Classic examples of this are the rabbit/duck and the Rubin vase. Ambiguous images are important to the field of psychology because they are often research tools used in experiments. There is varying evidence on whether ambiguous images can be represented mentally, but a majority of research has theorized that they cannot be properly represented mentally.
Read more about Ambiguous Image: Identifying and Resolving Ambiguous Images, Perceiving The Image in Mid-level Vision, Gestalt Grouping Rules, Texture Segmentation and Figure-ground Assignments, Occlusion, Accidental Viewpoints, Recognizing An Object Through High-level Vision, Trouble With Ambiguous Perceptions: Prosopagnosia
Famous quotes containing the words ambiguous and/or image:
“The whole of natural theology ... resolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous proposition, That the cause or causes of order in the universe probably bear some remote analogy to human intelligence.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“That myth—that image of the madonna-mother—has disabled us from knowing that, just as men are more than fathers, women are more than mothers. It has kept us from hearing their voices when they try to tell us their aspirations . . . kept us from believing that they share with men the desire for achievement, mastery, competence—the desire to do something for themselves.”
—Lillian Breslow Rubin (20th century)