TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - The effect of spatial competition between object-level representations of target and mask on object substitution masking
JO  - Attention, perception and psychophysics
A1  - Guest, Duncan
A1  - Gellatly, Angus
A1  - Pilling, Michael
SP  - 2528
EP  - 2541
VL  - 73
IS  - 8
N2  - One of the processes determining object substitution masking (OSM) is thought to be the spatial competition between independent object file representations of the target and mask (e.g., Kahan & Lichtman, 2006). In a series of experiments, we further examined how OSM is influenced by this spatial competition by manipulating the overlap between the surfaces created by the modal completion of the target (an outline square with a gap in one of its sides) and the mask (a four-dot mask). The results of these experiments demonstrate that increasing the spatial overlap between the surfaces of the target and mask increases OSM. Importantly, this effect is not caused by the mask interfering with the processing of the target features it overlaps. Overall, the data indicate, consistent with Kahan and Lichtman, that OSM can arise through competition between independent target and mask representations.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1943-3921
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-011-0196-5
ID  - ref1
ER  -