Titchener Illusion
The illusion due to psychologist Edward Bradford Titchener that a circle surrounded by other circles will appear smaller if the surrounding circles are enlarged. This effect is especially striking when comparing the cases where the surrounding circles are respectively smaller and larger than the middle circle, as in the illustration above in which the red circles are exactly the same size.
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