How Visual Perception of the Inside of Things Creates the Impossible Dovetail

Here, we consider a well-known wooden puzzle known as the impossible dovetail. We argue that an intriguing form of amodal completion, dealing with spontaneous interpretations of the inside of objects is the key to understanding why people find it difficult to see how the impossible dovetail is indee...

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Autores principales: Ekroll, Vebjørn, van Lier, Rob
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Short and Sweet
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7707859/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33294151
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2041669520960494
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spelling pubmed-77078592020-12-07 How Visual Perception of the Inside of Things Creates the Impossible Dovetail Ekroll, Vebjørn van Lier, Rob Iperception Short and Sweet Here, we consider a well-known wooden puzzle known as the impossible dovetail. We argue that an intriguing form of amodal completion, dealing with spontaneous interpretations of the inside of objects is the key to understanding why people find it difficult to see how the impossible dovetail is indeed possible. SAGE Publications 2020-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7707859/ /pubmed/33294151 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2041669520960494 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons CC BY: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7707859/
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