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SUBMITTER: Palmer SE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2593880 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Palmer Stephen E SE Brooks Joseph L JL
Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance 20081201 6
Edge-region grouping (ERG) is proposed as a unifying and previously unrecognized class of relational information that influences figure-ground organization and perceived depth across an edge. ERG occurs when the edge between two regions is differentially grouped with one region based on classic principles of similarity grouping. The ERG hypothesis predicts that the grouped side will tend to be perceived as the closer, figural region. Six experiments are reported that test the predictions of the ...[more]