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Duck-Rabbit

Joseph Jastrow (1899). A classic ambiguous illustration where a single contour represents either a duck's beak or a rabbit's ears.

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🧠 THE SCIENCE

Bistable Perception & Priming: The Jastrow Duck-Rabbit is a classic example of cognitive bistability. The visual stimulus remains exactly the same, but your mental model fluctuates between two animal shapes.

Interestingly, researchers have found that people are heavily influenced by context and semantic priming. If tested near Easter, participants are much more likely to see the rabbit first. If tested on a rainy autumn day, they tend to see the duck. It proves that top-down mental context overrides bottom-up sensory data.

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