Separate cortical stages in amodal completion revealed by functional magnetic resonance adaptation

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31 August 2007

journal article
research article
Published by Springer Nature in BMC Neuroscience

Vol. 8 (1) , 70
https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-8-70

Abstract

Objects in our environment are often partly occluded, yet we effortlessly perceive them as whole and complete. This phenomenon is called visual amodal completion. Psychophysical investigations suggest that the process of completion starts from a representation of the (visible) physical features of the stimulus and ends with a completed representation of the stimulus. The goal of our study was to investigate both stages of the completion process by localizing both brain regions involved in processing the physical features of the stimulus as well as brain regions representing the completed stimulus.

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