Mercury retrograde — or more scientifically, Mercury apparent retrograde motion — is a real phenomenon. It's an optical illusion that astronomers can observe as Mercury speeds past the Earth a few ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The primary purpose of the studies presented was to determine whether stimulus displacement in random-dot cinematogram apparent motion should ...

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