THE PERCEPTION OF A VISUAL SHAPE AND OF ITS FRAME‐SURFACE DURING CONTINUOUS TRANSFORMATION
- 1 March 1961
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
- Vol. 2 (1), 56-64
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9450.1961.tb01221.x
Abstract
The procedure differed from that of traditional shape constancy experiments in that cues for the slant of the total frame‐surface containing the main figure, a shadow rectangle, were given. The impression of slant was determined by gradients of continuous perspective transformations caused by movable elastic material casting its shadow on a translucent screen. The following hypothesis was confirmed: the tendency to see a shape in its original proportions (i.e., those it has when shown in a frontal‐parallel orientation) increases with the increasingly strong impression of the slant of its plane surface.Keywords
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