Visual detection of line segments: an object-superiority effect.
Observers identified a briefly flashed line segment more accurately when it was part of a drawing that looked unitary and three-dimensional than when the line was in one of several less coherent flat designs.
D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D013028:Space Perception