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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"ambiguous figures"”.
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An investigation into the effects of acute alcohol on the inhibitory mechanisms of control involved in visual perception
… although the evidence is not conclusive. Ambiguous figures provide a novel way to assess these processes, as attention needs to be directed towards one interpretation and away from the alternate interpretation, which must be inhibited. The contribution of both intentional and automatic …
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Boundaries of the cognitive phenotype of autism: social cognition and central coherence in young people with autistic traits and their first degree relatives
… visual illusions and saw fewer reversals of an ambiguous figure when IQ was statistically controlled. These results in a sample with a low genetic load suggest ambiguous figures will be important in delineating the broader cognitive phenotype of autism.
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Gender Ambiguity in Early Modern English and French Art, 1530-1630
… for studying early modern images of androgynous figures, cross-dressing, and gender transformation. By exploring, rather than resolving, their ambiguity, this thesis aims to shed new light on objects whose challenging effects have often led them to be oversimplified or set aside. The first …
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Transitions-felt: William James, Locative Narrative and the Multi-stable Field of Expanded Narrative
… interpretations experienced when we look at an ambiguous figures, such as, the Necker cube, this thesis develops the position that expanded narrative practices and specifically locative narrative, a genera of expanded narrative, hold the potential to prompt the experiential effects of …
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Commonalities And Differences In Visual And Auditory Multistability
… was addressed in the current work by using four ambiguous tasks that give rise to bi/multi-stability and which are thought to involve rivalry at different levels of cognitive processing: auditory streaming and ambiguous-structure-from-motion (low- level tasks), and verbal transformations and …
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Wahrnehmungswechsel bei mehrdeutigen Bildern - EEG-Messungen zum Zeitverlauf neuronaler Mechanismen
Die Betrachtung mehrdeutiger Reize (z.B. Necker-Würfel) führt zu spontanen Wahrnehmungswechseln. In bisherigen EEG-Untersuchungen zu diesem Phänomen wurde der Tastendruck der Versuchsperson als Referenz zur Mittelung genutzt, was zu hoher zeitlicher Ungenauigkeit führt. Mit einem verfeinerten …