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COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY “Discuss low-level and high-level explanations of illusory contours.” It would appear that the process of perceiving images, objects and color is an effortless activity, however the underlying mechanisms
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COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY "Discuss low-level and high-level explanations of illusory contours." It would appear that the process of perceiving images, objects and color is an effortless activity, however the underlying mechanisms involved are fundamentally very complex and not fully understood even today. Only in the last one hundred years have scientists started to make some progress in understanding vision and perception, and visual illusions in particular provided a window into these processes. Even when we intellectually can determine that we are looking at an illusion, it does not keep us from being effected by its properties. This indicates a split between our perception of something and our conception of it. In many cases our higher order cognitive abilities cannot influence our lower order perceptions (Gregory, 1975). For example in the famous Kanizsa's illusion, the solid triangle in the center appears to have well-defined contours. Observers generally report a strong phenomenal impression that contours...
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