Perceptual Closure
"Perceptual Closure" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The tendency to perceive an incomplete pattern or object as complete or whole. This includes the Gestalt Law of Closure.
| Descriptor ID |
D010466
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F02.463.593.932.677
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| Concept/Terms |
Perceptual Closure- Perceptual Closure
- Closure, Perceptual
- Closures, Perceptual
- Perceptual Closures
- Perceptual Completion Phenomena
- Completion Phenomena, Perceptual
- Phenomena, Perceptual Completion
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Perceptual Closure" by people in Profiles.
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Gerhardstein P, Tse J, Dickerson K, Hipp D, Moser A. The human visual system uses a global closure mechanism. Vision Res. 2012 Oct 15; 71:18-27.
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Foreman N, Fielder A, Minshell C, Hurrion E, Sergienko E. Visual search, perception, and visual-motor skill in "healthy" children born at 27-32 weeks' gestation. J Exp Child Psychol. 1997 Jan; 64(1):27-41.