negative afterimage

negative afterimage
   Also known as Purkinje afterimage. The adjective negative refers to the fact that the colours of this type of * afterimage are complementary to the colours of the primary stimulus. The term negative afterimage is used in opposition to *positive afterimage, a term that is reserved for duplicate images that have the same relative brightness relations as the perceived object or stimulus. The negative afterimage is usually classified as a * physiological illusion.
   References
   Brown, J.L. (1965). Afterimages.In: Vision and visual perception. Edited by Graham, C.H. New York, NY: Wiley.

Dictionary of Hallucinations. . 2010.

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