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Ocular Physiological Phenomena > Afterimage
Psychological Phenomena > Mental Processes > Perception > Visual Perception > Afterimage

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Afterimage  

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Broader concept

Note

  • differentiate from FIGURAL AFTEREFFECT which is displacement of (usually) geometric pattern in shape & space; while both are in the field of perception, AFTERIMAGE is likely to be in ophthalmol jrnls, FIGURAL AFTEREFFECT, in psychol jrnls

Scope note

  • Continuation of visual impression after cessation of stimuli causing the original image.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000360

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