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The light around the movie marquee flashed on-and-off in succession However, Jamil did not perceive them as separate lights flashing, but instead saw a continuous band of light moving around the edge of the marquee. Jamil's perception illustrates:

Correct answer: D. The phi phenomenon

  • A. Feature detection.
  • B. Bottom-up processing
  • C. Pre-attentive processing
  • D. The phi phenomenon

Explanation

The phi phenomenon occurs when rapidly displayed stationary lights are perceived as a single moving light. This is the perceptual basis of apparent motion in displays such as movie marquees.

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