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McLuhan would weep to behold such mastery of figure-ground effects.
2009 December 2009
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McLuhan would weep to behold such mastery of figure-ground effects.
How about “Somewhat benign, but sort of an a-hole”? - Colby Cosh - Macleans.ca 2009
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Does this discussion have anything in common with the figure-ground phenomenon?
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Kubovy and Van Valkenburg (2001, 2003) define objecthood in terms of figure-ground segregation, which requires perceptual grouping.
Auditory Perception O'Callaghan, Casey 2009
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Such streams are subject to figure-ground shifts, and, like collections of surfaces, they can be attentively tracked through changes to their features and to one's perspective.
Auditory Perception O'Callaghan, Casey 2009
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The figure-ground "illusions" have been a famous source of entertainment for years - but they also illustrate that we can only see one figure at a time.
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McLuhan would weep to behold such mastery of figure-ground effects.
2009 2009
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Though they are more skeptical about whether audition parallels vision, Griffiths and Warren (2004) sympathize with a figure-ground characterization but suggest a working notion of an auditory object as “an acoustic experience that produces a two-dimensional image with frequency and time dimensions”
Auditory Perception O'Callaghan, Casey 2009
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Geometric card properties that further enhance game play include figure-ground reversibility, handedness, rotational transformation, and perpendicular association.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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Geometric card properties that further enhance game play include figure-ground reversibility, handedness, rotational transformation, and perpendicular association.
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