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The effects of stereoscopic depth on completion

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Abstract

Stereoscopic depth has a critical effect on completion of partially occluded figures. However, it has not strictly been distinguished whether the effect is direct or indirect through alteration of contour segmentation or parsing. Here, I report that stereoscopic depth does not influence completion of partially occluded figures when parsing is unambiguous from motion cues. This is consistent with the present proposal that stereoscopic depth does not have a unique role in completion and that it is one of the cues to contour segmentation or parsing, which in turn influences completion and surface representation, like motion, shape, or transparency.

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    Hiroshige Takeichi

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This study was supported by the Inamori Foundation of Science. Parts of the experiments were conducted at the Communications Research Laboratory of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of Japan and at the University of Tokyo.

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Takeichi, H. The effects of stereoscopic depth on completion. Perception & Psychophysics 61, 144–150 (1999). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03211955

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Keywords

  • Illusory Contour
  • Binocular Disparity
  • Arcsine Transformation
  • Occlude Object
  • Stereoscopic Depth