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- Title
An influence of extremal edges on boundary extension.
- Authors
Hale, Ralph; Brown, James; McDunn, Benjamin; Siddiqui, Aisha
- Abstract
Studies have shown that people consistently remember seeing more of a studied scene than was physically present (e.g., Intraub & Richardson Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 15, 179-187, ). This scene memory error, known as boundary extension, has been suggested to occur due to an observer's failure to differentiate between the contributing sources of information, including the sensory input, amodal continuation beyond the view boundaries, and contextual associations with the main objects and depicted scene locations (Intraub, ). Here, 'scenes' made of abstract shapes on random-dot backgrounds, previously shown to elicit boundary extension (McDunn, Siddiqui, & Brown Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21, 370-375, ), were compared with versions made with extremal edges (Palmer & Ghose Psychological Science, 19, 77-84, ) added to their borders, in order to examine how boundary extension is influenced when amodal continuation at the borders' view boundaries is manipulated in this way. Extremal edges were expected to reduce boundary extension as compared to the same scenes without them, because extremal edge boundaries explicitly indicate an image's end (i.e., they do not continue past the view boundary). A large and a small difference (16 % and 40 %) between the close and wide-angle views shown during the experiment were tested to examine the effects of both boundary extension and normalization with and without extremal edges. Images without extremal edges elicited typical boundary extension for the 16 % size change condition, whereas the 40 % condition showed signs of normalization. With extremal edges, a reduced amount of boundary extension occurred for the 16 % condition, and only normalization was found for the 40 % condition. Our findings support and highlight the importance of amodal continuation at the view boundaries as a component of boundary extension.
- Subjects
MEMORY research; VISUAL perception; PSYCHOLOGICAL errors; EXPERIMENTAL psychology; COGNITION
- Publication
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2015, Vol 22, Issue 4, p961
- ISSN
1069-9384
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/s13423-014-0751-x