
Sensation and Perception 9th Edition by Bruce Goldstein
Edition 9ISBN: 978-1133958475
Sensation and Perception 9th Edition by Bruce Goldstein
Edition 9ISBN: 978-1133958475 Exercise 4
Vecera showed that regions in the lower part of a stimulus are more likely to be perceived as figure. How does this result relate to the idea that our visual system is tuned to regularities in the environment?
Figure 1
(a) When the vase is perceived as figure, it is seen in front of a homogeneous dark background. (b) When the faces are seen as figure, they are seen in front of a homogeneous light background.
Figure 2
(a) Stimuli from Vecerra et al. (2002). (b) Percentage of trials on which lower or left areas were seen as figure.

Figure 1
(a) When the vase is perceived as figure, it is seen in front of a homogeneous dark background. (b) When the faces are seen as figure, they are seen in front of a homogeneous light background.

Figure 2
(a) Stimuli from Vecerra et al. (2002). (b) Percentage of trials on which lower or left areas were seen as figure.

Explanation
There a number of perceptual biases that...
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