English Explanatory Dictionary

Hering illusion

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An optical illusion in which two straight and parallel lines presented in front of a radial (spoked) background appear to be bowed outwards.

Word forms

Hering illusion Hering illusions

Etymology

Discovered by the German physiologist Ewald Hering in 1861.

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