The integration between Gestalt grouping cues has been a relatively unexplored issue in vision science. The present work introduces an objective indirect method based on the to determine the rules that govern the dominance dynamics of the competition between both intrinsic (Experiment 1: proximity vs luminance similarity) and extrinsic grouping cues (Experiment 2: common region vs connectedness) by means of objective measures of grouping (reaction times and accuracy). Prior to the main task, a novel objective equating task was introduced with the aim of equating the grouping strength of the cues for the visuomotor system. The main task included two single conditions with the grouping cues acting alone as well as two competing conditions displaying the grouping factors pitted against one another. Conventional aggregated analyses were combined with individual analysis and both revealed a consistent pattern of processing dominance of: (1) luminance similarity over proximity and (2) common region over connectedness. Interestingly, the individual analyses showed that, despite the heterogeneous responses to the single conditions, the pattern of dominance between cues was robustly homogeneous among the participants in the competing conditions.
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