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Descriptor English: Figural Aftereffect
Descriptor Spanish: Efecto Tardío Figurativo
Descriptor postefecto figurativo
Entry term(s) efecto figurativo tardio
efecto tardio figurativo
Scope note: Fenómeno perceptivo utilizado por los psicólogos de la Gestalt para demostrar que los acontecimientos en una parte del campo perceptivo pueden afectar a la percepción en otra parte.
Descriptor Portuguese: Pós-Efeito de Figura
Descriptor French: Effet consécutif figural
Entry term(s): Aftereffect, Figural
Aftereffects, Figural
Figural Aftereffects
Tree number(s): F02.463.593.932.401
G14.360
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005366
Scope note: A perceptual phenomenon used by Gestalt psychologists to demonstrate that events in one part of the perceptual field may affect perception in another part.
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
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
DE drug effects
ES ethics
GE genetics
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Entry Version: FIGURAL AFTEREFF
DeCS ID: 5502
Unique ID: D005366
NLM Classification: WW 105
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2008/07/08
Figural Aftereffect - Preferred
Concept UI M0008465
Scope note A perceptual phenomenon used by Gestalt psychologists to demonstrate that events in one part of the perceptual field may affect perception in another part.
Preferred term Figural Aftereffect
Entry term(s) Aftereffect, Figural
Aftereffects, Figural
Figural Aftereffects



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