Figure 1.

Bipartite figure-ground test stimuli used in this study (see also Peterson et al., 1991, 1998, 2000; Gibson and Peterson, 1994; Barense et al., 2012). Familiar configurations were either (A) upright or (B) inverted. For display purposes, the familiar regions here are always shown in black and on the left (this was fully counterbalanced in the experiment). Shown here in the critical regions are, from left to right, a standing woman, a lamp, and a guitar. Figure modified and reproduced with permission from Gibson and Peterson (1994), Peterson et al. (1998, 2000), Barense et al. (2012).