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Visual Detection of Line Segments: An Object-Superiority Effect
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Observers identified a briefly flashed line segment more accurately when it was part of a drawing that looked unitary and three-dimensional than when the line was in one of several less coherent flat designs.
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“An example of our superior perceptual-motor abilities is the Object Superiority Effect: we perceive and interpret whole objects faster and more effective than the (more simple) individual elements that make up these objects (Weisstein and Harris, 1974; McClelland, 1978; Williams and Weisstein, 1978; Pomerantz, 1981).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Weisstein, N., & Harris, C. S.
- Affiliations
- Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1974-11-22
- Volume
- 186
- Issue
- 4165
- Pages
- 752-755
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2026041484
- Cited by
- 253
- References
- 10
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 7
- FWCI
- 4.51
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Keywords
- visual detection, line segments, visual perception, figure-ground perception, 3D perception, visual coherence
- MeSH terms
- Discrimination, Psychological, Fixation, Ocular, Form Perception, Humans, Orientation, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Space Perception
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