Semantic Suppression in Figure-Ground Perception and Binocular Rivalry

Figure-ground segregation occurs when one of two regions sharing a border is perceived as a shaped entity (a figure) and the other is perceived as a shapeless background to the figure. The mechanism of figure-ground perception is inhibitory competition. Peterson and Skow (2008) showed that a familia...

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Main Author: Adamo, Stephen Hunter
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/146907