Duck Eats Rabbit: Exactly Which Type of Relational Phrase Can Disambiguate the Perception of Identical Side by Side Ambiguous Figures?

Duck Eats Rabbit: Exactly Which Type of Relational Phrase Can Disambiguate the Perception of Identical Side by Side Ambiguous Figures?

Many individuals cannot at first see two ambiguous figures as different interpretations simultaneously, even with effort. Here in a large sample replication, we find that the phrase “duck eats rabbit” allows those who could not see a duck and rabbit side by side to do so. In a second experiment, we...

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Published in:Perception (London) Vol. 47; no. 4; pp. 466 - 469
Main Author: Mathewson, Kyle E.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01-04-2018
Subjects:
ambiguous figure
endogenous/exogenous
semantics
top-down
illusion
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Summary:Many individuals cannot at first see two ambiguous figures as different interpretations simultaneously, even with effort. Here in a large sample replication, we find that the phrase “duck eats rabbit” allows those who could not see a duck and rabbit side by side to do so. In a second experiment, we show that a relational phrase “next to” that does not disambiguate the spatial position interpretation does not similarly allow the duck to be seen next to the rabbit, supporting the proposal that top-down semantic-framing can influence perception of ambiguous figures.
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ISSN:0301-0066
1468-4233
DOI:10.1177/0301006618756810