V.M. Bondarko – leading research Scientist, Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences (St.-Petersburg)

E-mail: vmbond@gmail.com

D.V. Bondarko – Ingineer, Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences (St.-Petersburg)

E-mail: dmvb8@mail.ru

S.D. Solnushkin – Senior Research Scientist, Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences (St.-Petersburg)

E-mail: solnushkin@list.ru

V.N. Chikhman – Ph.D. (Eng.), Senior Researcher, Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences (St.-Petersburg)

E-mail: niv@pavlov.infran.ru

The results of modeling of psychophysical studies of the visual system on the perception of the Oppel-Kundt illusion are presented. The dependence on the number of lines obtained in experiments is invariant to the size of the spatial interval and is approximated by a model of modules based on the functioning of receptive fields of neurons in the primary visual cortex (V1).

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