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Filling-in does require a mechanism, and some persistent doubts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1998

Paul Whittle
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, Englandpw109@cam.ac.uk

Abstract

(1) In the everyday situation of seeing a uniform patch on a variegated background, filling-in does seem to require a mechanism. (2) Our attempts to make matches to such a patch make us appreciate anew the elusiveness of the phenomenon.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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