Judgments of perceptual groups: Reliability and sensitivity to stimulus transformation

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The reliability of subjects' judgments of the groups present in dot patterns and the sensitivity of those judgments to stimulus transformation were assessed. The subjects indicated the groups that they saw within random dot patterns, and each judgment was compared with those of other subjects and with their own judgments for related presentations. Within subjects, each pattern appeared in an initial presentation, an identical repetition, and a transformed state (a rotation or a change in scale). Within-subjects judgments were more reliable than between-subjects judgments. An interpretation of within-subjects results was made in relation to predictions made by a formal algorithm of grouping by proximity (the CODE algorithm), which assumes that grouping by proximity is invariant over transformations such as rotations or changes in scale. A slight cost to transforming the patterns was found. The implications for CODE and for using grouping judgments as data are discussed.

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Compton, B. J., & Logan, G. D. (1999). Judgments of perceptual groups: Reliability and sensitivity to stimulus transformation. Perception and Psychophysics, 61(7), 1320–1335. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03206183

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