Prior experience as a determinant of figure-ground organization.

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The failure to reproduce Rubin's aftereffect reported by Rock and Kremen (1957) was hypothesized as due to the absence from their training figures of the same black-white context that existed in their ambiguous test figures. This context was provided in the present experiment by training Ss in figure perception with reversible but unbalanced black-white designs, and subsequently testing them with identical contours in balanced designs. Comparison (chi square) of experimental and control Ss' responses to test designs revealed a significant effect (p < .02): Ss perceived the same figure-ground organization in the ambiguous test designs that they had perceived in the training designs. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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