Multiple
completions primed by occlusion patterns
Rob J. van Lier, Emanuel L. J. Leeuwenberg, Peter A. van der
Helm
Abstract. There is a
strong tendency to complete a partly occluded shape. Two types of
pattern completion, global and local, are frequently reported. By means
of the primed-matching paradigm, it has previously been shown that
global completions are prevalent for stimuli in which regularity is
abundantly present. In our study the primed-matching paradigm is
applied to such stimuli in order to find out whether the rival local
completion is generated as well. Therefore anomalous completions are
added to the experimental design. Priming effects both on global and on
local completions are compared with priming effects on those anomalous
completions. The data indeed suggest that the occlusion patterns evoked
not only a global but also a local completion.
Peter
A. van der Helm 