Imagine that you are at Niagara Falls, staring at the falling water for a few minutes. When you look away from the water at the crowd, the people seem to be floating upward. What phenomenon have you just experienced?

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Jude Barber

19 June, 02:45

Imagine that you are at Niagara Falls, staring at the falling water for a few minutes. When you look away from the water at the crowd, the people seem to be floating upward. What phenomenon have you just experienced?

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Lincoln Haney · Answer 1

Motion aftereffect.

Explanation:

Motion aftereffect refers to a powerful illusion of visual motion arising from being exposed to a moving object. It is based on the notion that observation of a stationary scene after sustained adaptation to a visual scene moving in a certain direction evokes an impression of movement in the opposite direction. The same phenomenon has been experienced by the crowd when they constantly look at the Niagara fall and then look away to the crowd.