![]() Following the original Gottschaldt’s Hidden Figure Test (GHFT), different versions of the Embedded Figures test have been devised, in which individuals are required to identify a target (simple) shape within complex designs. The test material is a series of meaningless geometrical patterns in which a simpler geometrical figure is embedded, and the task requirement is to pencil it in. Gottschaldt ( 1926, 1929) introduced the Embedded Figure Test as a suitable measure of the ability to disentangle a figure from the background. It has been classically demonstrated that, when participants are required to search for a simple figure (local level) integrated in a larger one (global level), their task is more difficult if the lines of the simple figure belong perceptually to a different visual configuration within the complex figure, an effect early referred to as “embeddedness” by Gottschaldt ( 1926, 1929). Figure disembedding ability is the capacity to visually locate and detect local elements immersed within a global configural shape (Witkin, 1950 Witkin et al., 1971). ![]()
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