Configural Biases and Reversible Figures: Evidence of Multilevel Grouping Effects

2002 ◽  
Vol 115 (4) ◽  
pp. 581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald M. Long ◽  
Joseph A. Stewart ◽  
Diane E. Glancey
Keyword(s):  
Reversible Figures

Reversible figures and the motion after-effect

1981 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn E. Meyer ◽  
Richard K. Sherman
Keyword(s):  
After Effect ◽  
Reversible Figures

Reversible Figures and Eye-Movements

1956 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chester H. Pheiffer ◽  
Spurgeon B. Eure ◽  
Chester B. Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Reversible Figures

On Visual Changes of Reversible Figures and Auditory Changes in Meaning

1962 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 673 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seymour Axelrod ◽  
Larry Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Reversible Figures ◽  
Visual Changes

scholarly journals Thinking, Experiencing and Rethinking Mereological Interdependence

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-46
Author(s):  
Michael W. Stadler
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Mutual Exclusion ◽  
Identity Relation ◽  
Gestalt Perception ◽  
Reversible Figures ◽  
Psychological Discussion

Summary The present article is a partly ontological, partly Gestalt-psychological discussion of the thinkability of structures in which parts and whole are interdependent (MI). In the first section, I show that in the framework of E. Husserl’s formal part–whole ontology, the conceptualization of such an interdependence leads to (mereo)logical problems. The second section turns to and affirms the experience of this interplay between parts and whole, exemplified with B. Pinna’s recent research on meaningful Gestalt perception. In the final section, I take the experienceability of MI as a justification to suggest a way of rethinking it. This entails an implementation of the process of foregrounding and backgrounding displayed by reversible figures and originally described by E. Rubin. This can avoid both an identity relation between parts and whole and their mutual exclusion as well as hierarchization due to their apparent differences. It would also guarantee the inherent dynamics of interdependence.

Perceptual set and neural fatigue effects on two reversible figures

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald M. Long ◽  
Thomas C. Toppino ◽  
Gregory W. Mondin
Keyword(s):  
Reversible Figures

Satiation Effects with Reversible Figures

1981 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 203-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Babich ◽  
Lionel Standing
Keyword(s):  
Baseline Level ◽  
Reversal Rate ◽  
Retinal Position ◽  
General Process ◽  
Reversal Effect ◽  
Complete Figure ◽  
Reversible Figures ◽  
Perceptual Alternation ◽  
Over Time

Three experiments were performed to examine the rate at which reversible perspective figures (Necker cubes) undergo apparent reversal, as a function of selected stimulus variables. 100 subjects were instructed not to inhibit or to promote reversals of perspective, but to remain neutral. The data indicated: (1) an incomplete cube reverses less frequently than does a corresponding complete figure, (2) two adjacent cubes reverse in synchrony when of equal luminance but often out of phase when differing in luminance, (3) a shift of the cube's retinal position causes its reversal rate to drop to baseline level. These results suggest that the reversal effect increases over time due to a localized rather than general process, and are thus compatible with a sensory satiation model of perceptual alternation.

Perceptual Ambiguity and Stability of Reversible Figures

1986 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimo Riani ◽  
Maria Teresa Tuccio ◽  
Antonio Borsellino ◽  
Jirina Radilová ◽  
Tomas Radil
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Perceptual Cues ◽  
Reversal Time ◽  
Loss Of Balance ◽  
Reversible Figures ◽  
The Stability

In this work, the results of two experiments on ambiguous patterns are reported, which have been obtained by presenting a series of stimuli designed, in both cases, to reduce gradually the ambiguity of the patterns. Such reduction has been performed by respectively increasing or decreasing the amount of graphic details in the experiments. Data of both experiments show a lengthening of mean reversal time. The increase in the stability of one percept can be regarded as associated with the increasing difficulties encountered by an observer in organizing and restating the alternative “hypochesis” through the perceptual mechanisms. The loss of balance in the durations of percepts is discussed in terms of their different informational contents. Finally, in Exp. 1 an analysis is made to evaluate to what extent an addition of perceptual cues, designed to reinforce a three-dimensional interpretation of a pattern, can influence its figure-ground alternation.

Selective Attention and Eye Movements While Viewing Reversible Figures

1977 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 639-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Hamilton Holcomb ◽  
Henry H. Holcomb ◽  
Augustin De La Peña
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Selective Attention ◽  
Eye Movement ◽  
Movement Patterns ◽  
Saccadic Eye Movements ◽  
Stimulus Complexity ◽  
Ambiguous Figures ◽  
Motivational Styles ◽  
Reversible Figures ◽  
Scanning Behavior

This study suggests that different eye-movement patterns are associated with reversals of ambiguous figures. The high scanners seem to be more dependent on eye movements for reversals and their recognition of each pattern depends on the sequence and location of fixations; thus shifts of attention appear to be externalized in the form of large, saccadic eye movements. In contrast low scanners are better able to shift attention internally, eg., by mental restructuring, without large eye movements. We further suggest that scanning behavior associated with reversals may be modulated by stimulus complexity, figures' reversibility, and extrinsic/intrinsic motivational styles.

Enduring Interest in Perceptual Ambiguity: Alternating Views of Reversible Figures.

2004 ◽  
Vol 130 (5) ◽  
pp. 748-768 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald M. Long ◽  
Thomas C. Toppino
Keyword(s):  
Reversible Figures
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