TY - JOUR
T1 - Combined effects of perceptual grouping cues on object representation
T2 - Evidence from motion-induced blindness
AU - Shibata, Michiaki
AU - Kawachi, Yousuke
AU - Gyoba, Jiro
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by a JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists to Y.K. (No. 195654), and by a MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research to J.G. (No. 18330151). This research was conducted at the Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University.
PY - 2010/2
Y1 - 2010/2
N2 - We investigated the combined effects of perceptual grouping cues (proximity and contour closure/proximity and orientation similarity) on object representation, using motion-induced blindness, a phenomenon in which salient visual stimuli perceptually disappear when surrounded by moving patterns. We presented as visual targets two stimuli in which a solid square was embedded in an outlined square. Participants reported whether the targets disappeared independently or simultaneously. The results showed that a relatively high proximity cue (with a 0.2-deg separation between the targets) modulated the perceptions of the independent or simultaneous disappearances of targets, regardless of other grouping cues. The contour closure cue modulated these disappearances in the 0.4- to 0.8-deg separations. Finally, the orientation similarity cue began to modulate these disappearances in the 0.6- to 0.8-deg separations. We suggest that the separation between the visual stimuli modulates the combined effects of perceptual grouping cues on complete object representation.
AB - We investigated the combined effects of perceptual grouping cues (proximity and contour closure/proximity and orientation similarity) on object representation, using motion-induced blindness, a phenomenon in which salient visual stimuli perceptually disappear when surrounded by moving patterns. We presented as visual targets two stimuli in which a solid square was embedded in an outlined square. Participants reported whether the targets disappeared independently or simultaneously. The results showed that a relatively high proximity cue (with a 0.2-deg separation between the targets) modulated the perceptions of the independent or simultaneous disappearances of targets, regardless of other grouping cues. The contour closure cue modulated these disappearances in the 0.4- to 0.8-deg separations. Finally, the orientation similarity cue began to modulate these disappearances in the 0.6- to 0.8-deg separations. We suggest that the separation between the visual stimuli modulates the combined effects of perceptual grouping cues on complete object representation.
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U2 - 10.3758/APP.72.2.387
DO - 10.3758/APP.72.2.387
M3 - Article
C2 - 20139454
AN - SCOPUS:77951905381
VL - 72
SP - 387
EP - 397
JO - Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
JF - Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
SN - 1943-3921
IS - 2
ER -