Picture memory: role of figure-ground organization.
Alterations to the figure of pictures committed to visual memory are more easily detected than alterations to the ground, both in single and paired stimulus tests. Data for 40 scenes from 54 undergraduates suggest that perceptual processes interact with information storage and/or retrieval.
D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory; D014796:Visual Perception