Preferred Label : figural aftereffect;
MeSH definition : A perceptual phenomenon used by Gestalt psychologists to demonstrate that events in
one part of the perceptual field may affect perception in another part.;
MeSH synonym : aftereffect, figural; figural aftereffects; aftereffects, figural;
MeSH annotation : usually involves displacement of afterimage of geometric pattern in shape & space:
differentiate from AFTERIMAGE; while both are in the field of perception, AFTERIMAGE
is likely to be in ophthalmol jrnls, FIGURAL AFTEREFFECT, in psychol jrnls;
Origin ID : D005366;
UMLS CUI : C0016079;
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A perceptual phenomenon used by Gestalt psychologists to demonstrate that events in
one part of the perceptual field may affect perception in another part.
