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Science 1 April 1966:
Vol. 152. no. 3718, pp. 99 - 100
DOI: 10.1126/science.152.3718.99
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Visual Disappearances Caused by Form Similarity

Don Crosbie Donderi 1

1 Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal 2, Quebec, Canada

Three forms were scaled for similarity by two groups of observers, who used different methods. A third group reported the duration of disappearances observed for each pair of forms. Duration of total disappearance increased with an increase in form-pair similarity. Neural overlap can explain the similarity judgments; cell fatigue, the disappearances.

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