2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

The role of transparency and occlusion in visual phantoms and stereocapture

Research Project

Project/Area Number	13610104
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	実験系心理学
Research Institution	Ritsumeikan University
Principal Investigator	KITAOKA Akiyoshi College of Letters, Associate Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (70234234)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	SATO Takayuki Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience, Senior Researcher, 東京都神経科学総合研究所, 副参事研究員 (10004706)
Project Period (FY)	2001 – 2002
Keywords	visual completion / visual phantoms / stereocapture / stereopsis / transparency / illusion / occlusion / surface formation
Research Abstract	This research examined the relationship between visual phantoms and stereocapture from the viewpoint of transparency and occlusion. The result showed that both completion phenomena share a common characteristic in the spatial frequency domain, but that visual phantoms are based upon transparency while stereocapture is generated by occlusion. This finding throws light on elucidating the mechanisms of visual completion and surface formation in visual processing.

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