Changes in area affect figure–ground assignment in pigeons
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Changes in area affect figure–ground assignment in pigeons
A critical cue for figure-ground assignment in humans is area: smaller regions are more likely to be perceived as figures than are larger regions. To see if pigeons are similarly sensitive to this cue, we trained birds to report whether a target appeared on a colored figure or on a differently colored background. The initial training figure was either smaller than (Experiments 1 and 2) or the s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Vision Research
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0042-6989
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.12.016