Amodal completion and visual holes (static and moving)

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 123, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 55-72

  Bertamini, Marco ^a   Hulleman, Johan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amodal completion; Figure ground organisation; Shape; Visual holes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; VISION;

FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33748034389     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2006.04.006     Document Type: Article

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