Title Effect of bias on the perception of two simultaneously presented ambiguous figures /
Another Title Tendencijos įtaka dviejų dviprasmių figūrų suvokimui.
Authors Intaitė, Monika ; Šoliūnas, Alvydas ; Gurčinienė, Ona ; Rukšėnas, Osvaldas
DOI 10.15388/Psichol.2013.47.1403
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Is Part of Psichologija.. Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. 2013, t. 47, p. 91-101.. ISSN 1392-0359. eISSN 2345-0061
Keywords [eng] ambiguous figure ; adaptation ; multiple-figure presentation ; bias ; visual perception
Abstract [eng] Ambiguous figures are pictures which reverse their appearance during prolonged viewing and can be perceived in two (or more) available interpretations. Explanations for this phenomenon favour either early bottom-up processes or higher-level top-down processes. This study aimed to investigate the perception of simultaneously presented neutral and biased (i.e. with a slight modification towards one or another of the available interpretations) ambiguous figures. Our results have indicated that observers tend to perceive two adjacent identical figures as reversing simultaneously, and the same percepts dominated both in the reversal rate and the duration of perception. In the case of biased and neutral figures presented in pairs, modifications of interpretation either increased or decreased the frequency of a biased percept. The results show that both bottom-up and top-down perceptual processes influence the perception of ambiguous figures.
Published Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla
Type Journal article
Language English
Publication date 2013
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