Outlined elements, regular elements and coincidences in illusory-figure patterns.
When elements in a pattern which would otherwise produce an illusory figure are modified by outlining or by increasing their regularity (in accordance with a proposed measure of the latter quality), the illusory effect is much reduced. Both results reflect the principle that 'coincidences' in a display play little or no role in the process of segmentation when other circumstances tend to force critical edges to 'belong' to individual elements of the display.
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University of California, Davis 95616.
D001288:Attention; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D006801:Humans; D009903:Optical Illusions; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011601:Psychophysics