Bertamini Marco
Psychology Department, University of Liverpool, UK.
Perception. 2006;35(7):883-94. doi: 10.1068/p5496.
Holes are useful in the study of shape, contour curvature, and border ownership. Several authors have suggested that holes have figural or quasi-figural status. I discuss three criteria to test the evidence that holes behave more like figures than like ground: (i) holes perceived as such; (ii) similar performance for holes and figures; (iii) different performance for holes and other ground regions. Using these criteria, I review the literature and conclude that holes do not have figural status in relation to border ownership. I also argue that holes are ideal stimuli to study figure-ground organisation.
孔洞在形状、轮廓曲率和边界归属的研究中很有用。几位作者提出，孔洞具有图形或准图形的地位。我讨论了三个标准，以检验孔洞表现得更像图形而非背景的证据：（i）被视为孔洞的情况；（ii）孔洞和图形的表现相似；（iii）孔洞和其他背景区域的表现不同。运用这些标准，我回顾了相关文献，并得出结论：就边界归属而言，孔洞不具有图形地位。我还认为，孔洞是研究图形-背景组织的理想刺激物。
