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[Eccentricity-dependent influence of amodal completion on visual search].

Aya Shirama¹, Akira Ishiguchi

¹Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Department of Psychology, Ochanomizu University, Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8610, Japan. shirama@jcom.home.ne.jp

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Area of Science:

Visual perception
Cognitive psychology
Neuroscience

Context:

Amodal completion, the perception of occluded objects, has been studied for its role in visual search.
Previous research indicated rapid completion processes can hinder efficient visual search.
The influence of target eccentricity on amodal completion and visual search efficiency remained unclear.

Purpose:

To investigate whether amodal completion occurs uniformly across the visual field.
To examine the impact of target eccentricity on amodal completion's disruption of visual search.
To compare amodal completion's eccentricity effects with previously reported visual field effects.

Summary:

Amodal completion disrupted efficient visual search for targets even at high eccentricities (within 17 degrees).
The configuration effect driving amodal completion intensified with increasing eccentricity.
This effect contrasts with prior findings where M-scaling mitigated eccentricity effects.

Impact:

Suggests the visual system supports rapid amodal completion across the entire visual field.
Highlights that stimulus representations formed by amodal completion possess eccentricity-dependent characteristics.
Provides insights into the spatial organization of visual completion mechanisms.