A new perceptual context-superiority effect: line segments are more visible against a figure than against a ground. Export

@article{citeulike:2017033, abstract = {Context, specifically the perceived figure or ground of an ambiguous form that surrounds a diagonal line segment, can influence the discrimination of that line segment even though the physical attributes of the context remain the same during figure-ground reversals. When the line segment was flashed on a region of the form seen as figure, discrimination was twice as accurate as when the line segment was flashed in isolation, and it was at least three times as accurate as when the line segment was flashed on that same region seen as ground.}, author = {Wong, E. and Weisstein, N.}, citeulike-article-id = {2017033}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7123261}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=7123261}, day = {5}, issn = {0036-8075}, journal = {Science}, keywords = {figure\_ground, gestalt}, month = {November}, number = {4572}, pages = {587--589}, posted-at = {2007-11-29 17:05:07}, priority = {0}, title = {A new perceptual context-superiority effect: line segments are more visible against a figure than against a ground.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7123261}, volume = {218}, year = {1982} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2017033 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2017033 N2 - Context, specifically the perceived figure or ground of an ambiguous form that surrounds a diagonal line segment, can influence the discrimination of that line segment even though the physical attributes of the context remain the same during figure-ground reversals. When the line segment was flashed on a region of the form seen as figure, discrimination was twice as accurate as when the line segment was flashed in isolation, and it was at least three times as accurate as when the line segment was flashed on that same region seen as ground. IS - 4572 JF - Science SN - 0036-8075 EP - 589 TI - A new perceptual context-superiority effect: line segments are more visible against a figure than against a ground. VL - 218 SP - 587 KW - figure_ground KW - gestalt AU - Wong, E AU - Weisstein, N PY - 1982/11/05/ UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7123261 ER -