Assimilation and contrast in awareness.

Department of Psychology, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059, USA.

Percept Mot Skills. 1998 Feb;86(1):78. doi: 10.2466/pms.1998.86.1.78.

Assimilation and contrast (context-produced increases and decreases in sensed similarity) in awareness may be basic to understanding vision, audition, cognition, and memory. Key considerations follow.