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THE observation that circular patterns are immediately perceived if a random dot pattern (Fig. 1a) is superimposed on itself and rotated slightly (Fig. 2a) indicates that the visual system detects local autocorrelations and integrates these to form a global circular percept1. By varying both the local and global parameters describing the interference patterns, the functional organisation of the visual system can be probed and new perceptual effects discovered.
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GLASS, L., PÉREZ, R. Perception of Random Dot Interference Patterns. Nature 246, 360–362 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/246360a0
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