Hering illusion

In the case of the Hering illusion, the radial lines trick the visual system into thinking it is moving forward.

In this framework, under the common condition of forward ego-motion, it is possible that spatial warping counteracts the disadvantage of neural latencies.

However, it also demonstrates that any spatial warping that counteracts neural delays is not a precise, on-the-fly computation, but instead a heuristic achieved by a simple mechanism that succeeds under normal circumstances.

Researcher Mark Changizi explained the illusion in a 2008 article: "Evolution has seen to it that geometric drawings like this elicit in us premonitions of the near future.

The converging lines toward a vanishing point (the spokes) are cues that trick our brains into thinking we are moving forward as we would in the real world, where the door frame (a pair of vertical lines) seems to bow out as we move through it and we try to perceive what that world will look like in the next instant.