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Filling-in does require a mechanism,and some persistent doubts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1998

Paul Whittle
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, England pw109@cam.ac.uk
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Abstract

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(1) In the everyday situation of seeing a uniform patch on a variegated background, filling-in does seem to require a mechanism. (2) Our attempts to make matches to such a patch make us appreciate anew the elusiveness of the phenomenon.

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© 1998 Cambridge University Press