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    Rubin's vase (sometimes known as the Rubin face or the figure–ground vase) is a famous example of ambiguous or bi-stable (i.e., reversing) two-dimensional...
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    by the intrinsic nature of the whole." The Rubin vase faces–vase drawing that Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin described exemplifies one of the key aspects...
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    perception as seen in such optical illusions like the Rubin vase. Born to Jewish parents, Rubin was born and raised in Copenhagen. Enrolling at the University...
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    Fliegende Blätter, a German humor magazine. Other classic examples are the Rubin vase, and the "My Wife and My Mother-in-Law" drawing, the latter dating from...
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    can result in more than one percept. For example, the Rubin vase can be interpreted either as a vase or as two faces. The percept can bind sensations from...
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  • where one sees a black vase, then one blinks, and instead one sees two white faces in profile opposite each other (the Rubin vase). In transactional analysis...
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    eye causes the photoreceptors in that eye to respond more slowly. Rubin vase Rubin vase (1915): an ambiguous or bi-stable (i.e., reversing) two-dimensional...
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  • book as oscillating undecidably between these alternatives, like the Rubin vase (a drawing that may be two profiles or a goblet). Though a minority of...
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    Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1570); sometimes by a figure-ground ambivalence as in Rubin vase; by perceptual shift as in the rabbit–duck illusion, or through pareidolias;...
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  • interpretations. This is seen, for example, in the Necker cube and Rubin's Figure/Vase illusion. Other examples include the three-legged blivet, artist...
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