Paradoxical perception of object identity in visual motion.

ABSTRACT: In the course of perceptual organization, incomplete optical stimulation can evoke the experience of complete objects with distinct perceptual identities. According to a well-known principle of perceptual organization, stimulus parts separated by shorter spatial distances are more likely to appear as parts of the same perceptual identity. Whereas this principle of proximity has been confirmed in many studies of perceptual grouping in static displays, we show that it does not generalize to perception of object identity in dynamic displays, where the parts are separated by spatial and temporal distances. We use ambiguous displays which contain multiple moving parts and which can be perceived two ways: as two large objects that gradually change their size or as multiple smaller objects that r

SUBMITTER: Zharikova A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5548134 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature