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From: Separate cortical stages in amodal completion revealed by functional magnetic resonance adaptation

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Experimental procedure. An experimental trial began with the presentation of one composite stimulus for 300 ms, which was followed by a blank screen for 400 ms. Then the test stimulus was presented for 300 ms, followed by a blank screen for 2,000 ms. The test stimulus was either the completed shape ('completed'), the physical shape of the occluding stimulus ('physical'), a repetition of the occluding shape ('repeated'), or the physical shape rotated in plane around 180 degrees ('control'). All single-shape test stimuli were displayed at the exact positions they obtained in the composite stimulus shown before. Note that the composite stimulus – the stimulus that evokes amodal completion – is the same for all experimental conditions. The four experimental conditions are defined by the four different test stimuli. Thus, differences in fMRI signal are only based on differences between the test stimuli.

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