Seeing the impossible and building the likely.
Young & Deregowski (1981) state that the reason for some subjects' failure to perceive 'impossible' figures as confusing is probably that they do not integrate the stimuli, even though they see elements of the figures as depicting spatial arrangements. This suggests that such subjects should also tend to build distorted models of geometrical structures. This hypothesis was tested in the course of the present experiment. The results support the hypothesis.
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D011930:Reaction Time; D013028:Space Perception