Journal article
Lower Region: A New Cue for Figure-Ground Assignment
Journal of experimental psychology. General, Vol.131(2), pp.194-205
06/2002
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.131.2.194
Abstract
Figure-ground assignment is an important visual process; humans recognize, attend to, and act on figures, not backgrounds. There are many visual cues for figure-ground assignment. A new cue to figure-ground assignment, called lower region, is presented: Regions in the lower portion of a stimulus array appear more figurelike than regions in the upper portion of the display. This phenomenon was explored, and it was demonstrated that the lower-region preference is not influenced by contrast, eye movements, or voluntary spatial attention. It was found that the lower region is defined relative to the stimulus display, linking the lower-region preference to pictorial depth perception cues. The results are discussed in terms of the environmental regularities that this new figure-ground cue may reflect.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Lower Region: A New Cue for Figure-Ground Assignment
- Creators
- Shaun P Vecera - Department of Psychology, University of IowaEdward K Vogel - Department of Psychology, University of IowaGeoffrey F Woodman - Department of Psychology, University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of experimental psychology. General, Vol.131(2), pp.194-205
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- DOI
- 10.1037/0096-3445.131.2.194
- ISSN
- 0096-3445
- eISSN
- 1939-2222
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/2002
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984066137202771
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