Amodal completion is the phenomenon of perceiving completed objects even though
physically they are partially occluded. In this review, we provide an extensive overview of the …

We studied the influence of knowledge in the interpretation of partly occluded objects. In the
past decades, amodal completion has often been studied by using abstract, meaningless …

Using event-related potentials (ERPs) we investigated the influence of object knowledge on
perceiving partly occluded shapes. We created stimuli based on well-known objects of …

The visual appearance of an object is a function of stimulus properties as well as perceptual
biases imposed by the observer. The context-specific trade-off between both can be …

We studied the effects of learning on amodal completion of partly occluded shapes. Amodal
completion may originate from local characteristics of the partly occluded contours, resulting …

Amodal completion refers to the perceptual “filling-in” of partly occluded object fragments.
Previous work has shown that object completion occurs efficiently, at early perceptual stages …

The theoretical applicability of the constructs of configurality, holism, and Gestalten are
ubiquitous in perceptual psychology, yet there is a noticeable absence of a generally …

We investigated the involvement of visual awareness in amodal completion, and specifically,
whether visual awareness plays a differential role in local versus global completion, using a …

In the visual environment, objects often appear behind occluding surfaces, yet they are
automatically and effortlessly perceived as complete. Here, we examined whether visually …

Extrastriate visual areas are strongly activated by image symmetry. Less is known about
symmetry representation at object-level rather than image-level. Here we investigated …