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Ocular Physiological Phenomena > Figural Aftereffect
Psychological Phenomena > Mental Processes > Perception > Visual Perception > Figural Aftereffect

Preferred term

Figural Aftereffect  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Aftereffect, Figural
  • Aftereffects, Figural
  • Figural Aftereffects

Note

  • usually involves displacement of afterimage of geometric pattern in shape & space: differentiate from AFTERIMAGE; while both are in the field of perception, AFTERIMAGE is likely to be in ophthalmol jrnls, FIGURAL AFTEREFFECT, in psychol jrnls

Scope note

  • A perceptual phenomenon used by Gestalt psychologists to demonstrate that events in one part of the perceptual field may affect perception in another part.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005366

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