Citation

Bertamini M, Hulleman J. Acta Psychol. 2006; 123(1-2): 55-72.

Affiliation

School of Psychology, Eleanor Rathbone Building, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZA, United Kingdom. M.Bertamini@liverpool.ac.uk

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.actpsy.2006.04.006

PMID

16905108

Abstract

Occlusion is a frequent occurrence in a cluttered world of opaque objects. Often information about the shape of partly occluded objects can be gathered from the visible portion of the object and in particular its contours. Here we address the case where a region of a surface is visible exclusively through an aperture (visual hole). We make several observations about the grouping of surface regions visible through holes, and the appearance of moving objects and holes. These observations support the view that holes are shape properties of the object-with-hole.

Language: en