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The functional effects of modal versus amodal filling-in

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1998

Greg Davis  and
Jon Driver
Greg Davis
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdomgjd1000@cus.cam.ac.ukj.driver@ucl.ac.uk
Jon Driver
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdomgjd1000@cus.cam.ac.ukj.driver@ucl.ac.uk
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Abstract

Comparisons between modally and amodally completed regions show that perceptual filling-in is not merely the ignoring of absences. Illusory filled-in colour arises for modal completion, but not for amodal completion in comparable displays. We find that attention spreads automatically to modally but not amodally completed regions from their inducers, revealing a functional effect of filled-in colour.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 6 , December 1998 , pp. 752 - 753
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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