A Conceptual Playground Between Perception and Cognition: Introduction to the Special Issue on Amodal Completion

Lier, Rob van; Ekroll, Vebjørn

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“…As with reasoning, given the complexity of our environment, we need to interpret 1 ambiguous sensory information to make sense of it (see Changizi, 2009). This occurs, for example, when we automatically complete missing parts of an object, relying on our expectations to interpret its shape (for example, see Figure 4; for work on modal and amodal completion, see, for example, Ekroll et al, 2013, 2016; Kanisza and Gerbino, 1982; Michotte et al, 1991; Van Lier and Ekroll, 2020).…”

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Fooling System 1 in the field of perception: Failure to intuitively detect attribute substitution in the flushtration count illusion

Thomas

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Didierjean

2022

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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To facilitate our interactions with the surroundings, the human brain sometimes reshapes the situations that it faces in order to simplify them. This phenomenon has been widely studied in the context of reasoning, especially through the attribute substitution error. It has however been given much less attention in the field of perception. Recent research on the bat-and-ball problem suggests that reasoners are able to intuitively detect attribute substitution errors. Using a perceptual illusion drawn from the field of magic, we investigate the extent to which a perceptual form of attribute substitution depends on executive resources and can be detected. We also investigate the relationship between susceptibility to attribute substitution error in the flushtration count illusion and in a French adaptation of the bat-and ball problem. Finally, we investigate the link between the intuitive cognitive style (assessed by the Cognitive Reflection Test) and the susceptibility to the flushtration count illusion. Our results suggest that participants do not detect perceptual attribute substitution error, that this phenomenon could be independent of the executive resources allocated to the task, and could rest on mechanisms distinct from those that produce errors in reasoning. We discuss differences between these two phenomena, and factors that may explain them.

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Fooling System 1 in the field of perception: Failure to intuitively detect attribute substitution in the flushtration count illusion

Thomas

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Didierjean

2022

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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“…Looking more closely, you have the chance to observe several different 2D as well as 3D figures. Our cognitive apparatus creates them by amodal completion (introduced by Michotte & Burke, 1951 )—for further reading, see Gerbino (2020) and van Lier and Ekroll (2020) . This critical mechanism allows us to identify objects even when complete visual information is lacking or when parts of an object are occluded ( Nanay, 2018 )—this is actually the case in most everyday situations.…”

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Less is More: Perception as a fun way to Rich Minimalism

2022

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Perceptual science is important to understand how humans and other animals perceive and experience scenes, objects and events. So, it is the essential science to predict how we construct reality and our Umwelt. We learn from perceptual phenomena that we only need a minimal amount of information to create rich worlds of imagination and perception. As such, perception is the perfect analogue to what we would like to call “Rich Minimalism” – the way to save resources while having even more fun as our brains complete the missing parts in a creative way. Here, we briefly mention three little examples from basic research to demonstrate the power of perception for creating efficiency, effectiveness, and economy while having great fun with the resulting minimalism.

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Amodal Completion of Color

Todorović

2022

Gestalt Theory

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Summary Amodal completion involves the impression of existence and properties of visually occluded parts of objects. One aspect of this phenomenon that has been somewhat neglected is the amodal completion of color, which involves the impression that amodally completed surfaces have a particular color. In this paper, this aspect is investigated by constructing a large number of displays with identical target figures embedded in systematically varying contexts, to find out which contexts are conducive for amodal completion of color and which are not. In this setup, the main effects of changes of contexts are changes of geometric and photometric features of junctions along the borders of the target regions, which can cause dramatic differences in the appearance of those regions. Generally, a certain arrangement of T-junctions supports the impression of amodal completion of color, and it can be argued that certain types of X-junctions support a variant of this effect as well.

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A Conceptual Playground Between Perception and Cognition: Introduction to the Special Issue on Amodal Completion

Cited by 3 publications

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Fooling System 1 in the field of perception: Failure to intuitively detect attribute substitution in the flushtration count illusion

Fooling System 1 in the field of perception: Failure to intuitively detect attribute substitution in the flushtration count illusion

Less is More: Perception as a fun way to Rich Minimalism

Amodal Completion of Color

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