title: Conflicting figure--ground and depth information reduces moving phantom visibility.
abstract: Moving phantom visibility was measured in two experiments where the global figure-ground and depth relations within phantom-inducing patterns were manipulated. The local inducing environment where the illusion occurred was identical for all patterns. Phantom visibility was significantly reduced when occlusion cues specified the phantom-inducing parts of a pattern as ground. These results suggest conflicting figure-ground and depth information interferes with the representation and perception of phantoms as figure regions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens 30602.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Weisstein
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D003867:Depth Perception; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005364:Field Dependence-Independence; D006801:Humans; D009039:Motion Perception; D009903:Optical Illusions; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011601:Psychophysics