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Top-Down and Bottom-Up: The Illusory Contour as a Microcosm of Issues in Perception

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The Perception of Illusory Contours

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Stealth bombers, invisible men, ghosts, phantoms, phantom contours, illusions, Scheinkanten, illusory contours, subjective contours, virtual contours, cognitive contours, anomalous contours, contours without gradients, ‘magini quasi percettivi’ (quasi-perceptual contours).

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Meyer, G.E., Petry, S. (1987). Top-Down and Bottom-Up: The Illusory Contour as a Microcosm of Issues in Perception. 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_1

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