Competing
global and local completions in visual occlusion
Rob J. van Lier, Peter A. van der
Helm, Emanuel L. J. Leeuwenberg
Abstract.
In visual occlusion, two amodal-completion tendencies occur frequently.
One
tendency leads toward the simplest completed shape (a global
completion) and
the other to a shape for which the completion itself is as simple as
possible
(a local completion). Two experimental paradigms were used to test the
strengths
of these completion tendencies: a drawing task and a simultaneous
matching
task. The experimental results support the notion that the preference
for
either a global or a local completion is the consequence of a
competition between interpretations. Finally, the authors discuss how
the preference for
a completion can be predicted by a model that is based on a
quantification of both global and local aspects.
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Journal
of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and
Performance, 21, 571--583
(1995) |
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Peter
A. van der Helm 