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What the ‘Moonwalk’ Illusion Reveals about the Perception of Relative Depth from Motion 1,2. 3. ´ 1,2,4 Sarah Kromrey , Evgeniy Bart , Jay Hegde * 1 Brain and Behavior Discovery Institute, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, 2 Vision Discovery Institute, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, 3 Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, California, United States of America, 4 Department of Ophthalmology, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America Abstract When one visual object moves behind another, the object farther from the viewer is progressively occluded and/or disoccluded by the nearer object. For nearly half a century, this dynamic occlusion cue has beenthought to be sufficient by itself for determining the relative depth of the two objects. This view is consistent with the self-evident geometric fact that the surface undergoing dynamic occlusion is always farther from the viewer than the occluding surface. Here we use a contextual manipulation ofa previously known motion illusion, which we refer to as the‘Moonwalk’ illusion, to demonstrate that the visual system cannot determine relative depth from dynamic occlusion alone. Indeed, in the Moonwalk illusion, human observers perceive a relative depth contrary to the dynamic occlusion cue. However, the perception of the expected relative depth is restored by contextual manipulations unrelated to dynamic occlusion. On the other hand, we show that an Ideal Observer can determine using dynamic occlusion alone in the same Moonwalk stimuli, indicating that the dynamic occlusion cue is, in principle, sufficient for determining relative depth. Our results indica