TY - JOUR
T1 - Borders, contours, and mechanism
AU - Peterson, Mary A.
N1 - Funding Information:
The research discussed in this commentary was supported by NSF BCS 0425650 and 0960529.
Funding Information:
The authors are supported by an NSERC Discovery Grant and a LOF award from CFI.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Kogo and Wagemans claim that subjective contours are assigned from the earliest processing stages. I argue that in making this claim, Kogo and Wagemans are mistaking subjective experience with the perceptual mechanism. There is ample evidence that before figure assignment occurs object properties on opposite sides of unassigned borders compete for perception as figures. In order for these properties to compete, these must be a point in processing at which a border exists before it is assigned to one side.
AB - Kogo and Wagemans claim that subjective contours are assigned from the earliest processing stages. I argue that in making this claim, Kogo and Wagemans are mistaking subjective experience with the perceptual mechanism. There is ample evidence that before figure assignment occurs object properties on opposite sides of unassigned borders compete for perception as figures. In order for these properties to compete, these must be a point in processing at which a border exists before it is assigned to one side.
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U2 - 10.1080/17588928.2012.748026
DO - 10.1080/17588928.2012.748026
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 24073703
AN - SCOPUS:84874176609
SN - 1758-8928
VL - 4
SP - 52
EP - 53
JO - Cognitive Neuroscience
JF - Cognitive Neuroscience
IS - 1
ER -