Visual Detection of Line Segments: An Object-Superiority Effect
- 22 November 1974
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 186 (4165) , 752-755
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.186.4165.752
Abstract
Observers identified a briefly flashed line segment more accurately when it was part of a drawing that looked unitary and three-dimensional than when the line was in one of several less coherent flat designs.Keywords
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