{"id":8614,"date":"2019-05-22T16:09:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/object_unity\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:09:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:37","slug":"object_unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/object_unity\/","title":{"rendered":"Object unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to perceive a unitary object despite the fact that parts of it are out of sight or partly occluded. &nbsp;In infancy, common motion of parts leading to constant deletion and accretion of background, and Gestalt good form, contribute to perception of object unity. &nbsp;When they do not share a common translation, then the ends are perceived as belonging to different objects. &nbsp; These findings apply to infants as young as 4 months. &nbsp;They also apply to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wjh.harvard.edu\/~lds\/pdfs\/steri2004.pdf\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.wjh.harvard.edu\/~lds\/pdfs\/steri2004.pdf&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">haptic perception<\/a>&nbsp;[recognizing the properties of objects (e.g., shape, size) mainly through touch, but also in conjunction with proprioception]. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"gestalt_good_form\">Gestalt good form<\/a>, <a href=\"illusory_contours\">Illusory contours<\/a>, <a href=\"object_identity\">Object identity<\/a>, <a href=\"object_segregation\">Object segregation<\/a>, <a href=\"proprioception\">Proprioception<\/a>, <a href=\"somatosensory_cortex\">Somatosensory cortex<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to perceive a unitary object despite the fact that parts of it are out of sight or partly occluded. &nbsp;In infancy, common motion of parts leading to constant deletion and accretion of background, and Gestalt good form, contribute to perception of object unity. &nbsp;When they do not share a common translation, then the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/object_unity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Object unity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}