Interdependency between McCollough Effect and Craik-O'Brien Illusion.

A Craik-O'Brien-Cornsweet illusion for visual depth.

A stereo analogue of the Comsweet tuminance illusion was discovered. and measured by a null method. Two flat vertical textured surfaces in the frontoparallel plane met at a vertical boundary, at which the left-hand surface curved slightly forward and the right-hand surface curved back by an equal amount. The protruding left edge was jointed to the receding right edge by a step. Result: although...

Synesthesia and the McCollough Effect

Synesthetes, who see printed black letters and numbers as being colored, are thought to have enhanced cross-activation between brain modules for color and form. Since the McCollough effect also results from oriented contours (i.e., form) evoking specific colors, we conjectured that synesthetes may experience an enhanced McCollough effect, and find that this is indeed true.

Conditioning and blocking of the McCollough effect.

The cliassical conditioning explanation of the McCollough effect was extended by investigating blocking and allied phenomena predicted by the Rescorla-Wagner (1972) equations. The subjects were first exposed to colored gratings or moving spirals and then were tested after induction with a compound of both types of stimuli. The effects appeared to be additive, and the stronger stimuli overshadow...

The anti-McCollough effect: the mystery remains.

Probing unconscious visual processing with the McCollough effect.

The McCollough effect, an orientation-contingent color aftereffect, has been known for over 30 years and, like other aftereffects, has been taken as a means of probing the brain's operations psychophysically. In this paper, we review psychophysical, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging studies of the McCollough effect. Much of the evidence suggests that the McCollough effect depends on neural m...