The analysis of amodal completion for modeling visual perception

Abstract

The challenge of creating a real-life computational equivalent of the human mind encompasses several aspects. Of fundamental relevance is to understand the cognitive functions of natural intelligent systems. Most of human brain is devoted to perceptual tasks which are not purely perceptive but convey also emotional competence. Amodal completion is a widespread phenomenon in vision: it is the ability to perceive an object in its entirety even though some parts of the object are hidden by another entity, as in the case of occlusion. The aim of our study was to test whether certain characteristics of colour can influence the division of a bi-coloured rectangle into its two respective parts when the border between them is occluded by another rectangle and therefore seen amodally. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.