RUBIN'S FIGURE

Also known asRubin face, Rubin's face, Rubin vase, Rubin's vase, Rubin's vase-face illusion, goblet figure, andfigure-ground vase. The eponym Rubin's figure refers to the Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin (1886-1951), who described the phenomenon in or shortly before 1915. It is used to denote a "cognitive illusion which may arise while viewing an ambiguous image depicting either a goblet, or two facing profiles. Because of the image's bistable nature, it is also classified as an "ambiguous illusion.

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Rubin, E. (1915).Synsoplevede figurer. Copenhagen: Gyldenhal.