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The interpretation of a dynamic visual scene requires integrating information within frames (grou** and completion) and across frames (correspondence matching). Fragmentary views of objects were used in five experiments. These views could not be matched with each other by any similarity transformation on the basis of their explicit visual features, but their completed versions were related by a rotational transformation. When the fragmentary images were successively presented to observers, it was found that they produced apparent motion in the picture plane and in depth. Thus, apparent motion is capable of establishing correspondence at the level of perceptually recovered objects in three-dimensional space.
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The experiments were conducted at the Institute of Information Processing and Decision Making, University of Haifa. This paper was completed while the author was the Irv Acenberg visiting scientist at the Rotman Research Institute of Baycrest Centre, Toronto.
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Koriat, A. Object-based apparent motion. Perception & Psychophysics 56, 392–404 (1994). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03206731
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