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Figure 1. Perceptual grouping by similarity. In the classic example (A), both visuals spark the same percept of a unique object located in the centre of a diamond-shaped arrangement, irrespective of the identities of individual items. Analogously, in word recognition (B), both strings would activate the same configurational representation, irrespective of letter identity.
Figure 2. Experiment 1 trial procedure. The size of stimuli relative to the screen is exaggerated in this example.
Figure 3. Overview of the trial procedure in Experiment 2. Catch trials occurred in one out of seven trials (“Wat waren de cijfers?” is Dutch for “What were the digits?”). The size of stimuli relative to the screen is exaggerated in this example.
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