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Contours perceived in the absence of a corresponding gradient in physical stimulation have been variously called subjective, illusory, virtual, and cognitive contours. For some time now, my students and I have been conducting quantitative and qualitative investigations of this phenomenon. While this chapter will focus on the effects of perceptual organization on subjective-contour perception, I would like to first briefly summarize our quantitative research in this general area.
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Bradley, D.R. (1987). Cognitive Contours and Perceptual Organization. In: Petry, S., Meyer, G.E. (eds) The Perception of Illusory Contours. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4760-9_22
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