Is interpolation cognitively encapsulated? Measuring the effects of belief on Kanizsa shape discrimination and illusory contour formation

Cognition

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 404-418

  Keane, Brian P ^a,b,c   Lu, Hongjing ^a   Papathomas, Thomas V ^b,d   Silverstein, Steven M ^c   Kellman, Philip J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UMDNJ University Behavioral HealthCare and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive expectation; Cognitive impenetrability; Contour interpolation; Filling in; Illusory contours; Modularity; Perceptual completion; Perceptual organization; Strategy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCAPSULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PARTICLE SIZE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BELIEF; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CULTURE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859714574     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.02.004     Document Type: Article

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