Does exposure within an experiment affect the influence of familiar parts versus wholes on figure assignment?

ABSTRACT: Recurring questions in visual perception concern the role of experience and the relationship between parts and wholes. We investigated these questions in an experiment in which observers reported where they perceived a figure relative to a central border in bipartite displays in which the region on one side depicted either: (1) an identifiable configuration of a familiar basic-level object in its typical upright orientation (a "whole" familiar configuration); (2) an inverted version of (1); (3) a part rearranged (PR) version of (1) comprising the same parts as the upright familiar configuration; (4) an inverted version of (3). Previous research showed that regions are perceived as figures more often when they depict upright familiar configurations rather than inverted or PR configurations,

SUBMITTER: Flowers CS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12775106 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature