Rob van Lier, PhD                           A few visual illusions and phenomena (see below)
     Associate Professor

- For a brief c.v. see here

- Research Interests:
   Visual occlusion and amodal completion (local completions versus global completions, 3D object completion)
   Object perception (structural descriptions, viewpoint (in)dependency, connectedness)
   Color Perception (perceptual grouping and colour assimilation,  neon colour illusion, afterimages)
   Visual awareness (binocular rivalry, flash induced fading)
   Mental rotation phenomena (object-viewer rotations, visual imagery versus motor imagery)
   Perceptual development and deficits (infant object perception, autism)
  Visual illusions (see below)

- Publications & Presentations

- PhD Projects

A few visual illusions & phenomena:
           Double neon colour
           Dancing shapes
           Con-fusing contours
           Catching patches
           'One eye knows what the other eye sees'
           Filling in the afterimage after the image (First Prize "Best Illusion of the Year" 2008)

- Courses I teach

- A few events in honor of ...

- Public Activities (Newspaper, TV, Radio etc.)

- The magic of perception (an introduction to perception research), under construction

- Contact:
    Dr. Rob van Lier
    Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour,
    Centre for Cognition
    Radboud University Nijmegen
    PO Box 9104
    6500 HE Nijmegen
    The Netherlands

    Tel: ++31 24 3615698
    NEW E-mail: R.vanlier@donders.ru.nl
    http://www.nici.ru.nl/~robvl/
    http://www.robvanlier.nl

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