= assumption based on experience that smaller objects must be moving across larger one
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ex. usually when we see a ball rolling across a table, we think ball is the one moving, not the table moving underneath a stationary ball
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a misinterpretation of this illusion → the bigger object is moving, but brain assumes otherwise
ex. at traffic light and the big truck next to you starts moving forward and you hit the brakes harder, thinking you are going backward