Citation

Cohn TE, Lasley DJ. Perception 1990; 19(5): 573-580.

Affiliation

School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley 94720.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, SAGE Publications)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2102992

Abstract

The wallpaper illusion, first described over a century ago, can occur when a person with normal binocular vision views a pattern that is periodic in the horizontal meridian of the visual field. Escalator trends present such a pattern. Evidence is presented favoring the view that disorientation experienced by escalator riders is caused by this illusion. Possibly some of the estimated 60,000 escalator falls occurring in the United States each year are linked to it.

Language: en