Continuation of visual impression after cessation of stimuli causing the original image.
Synonyms: Afterimage, Afterimages
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differentiate from FIGURAL AFTEREFFECT which is displacement of (usually) geometric pattern in shape & space; while both are in the field of perception, AFTERIMAGE is likely to be in ophthalmol jrnls, FIGURAL AFTEREFFECT, in psychol jrnls
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D000360