The red dots are moving up and down for exactly the same duration, but we hardly perceive them moving up.
Now the percept changes a bit. The red dots are moving exactly as in the first example, but we might be able to see them moving up. If you want to know more: Linares, D. and López-Moliner, J. (2006). Journal of Vision, 6:974–981
Half-spiral having a radial component of contraction. Even though we perceive a clear rotation, it can elicit an expansion motion after-effect. In order to see the motion after-effect, look at the stimulus for one minute and stop it by clicking on the movie with the mouse. A Double click restarts the movie. See Lopez-Moliner, Smeets & Brenner (2004) for more information.