On illusory contours and their functional significance

Birgitta Dresp (1)

1 ICube - Laboratoire des sciences de l'ingénieur, de l'informatique et de l'imagerie

This article discusses functional aspects of the visual perception of contours bridging gaps between luminance contrast borders. Such contours are referred to as "illusory" because they appear in loci of complex visual configurations where no physically measurable contrast information is present.

Mots clés: illusory contours; visual interpolation; biological vision; evolution of visual cortex

Domaines: Sciences cognitives

Birgitta Dresp. On illusory contours and their functional significance. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive - Current Psychology of Cognition, 1997, pp.489-518. ⟨hal-01054031⟩