Igor Yevin
Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Moscow, Russia
In perception psychology, multistabile perception of ambiguous figures is often considered as a marginal curiosity. Nevertheless, this phenomenon is one of the most investigated psychological phenomena, because it has attracted perceptual scientists since the first description of ambiguity, given by Necker in 1832. Actually, ambiguous patterns are not freak phenomena. Some authors argued, that every pattern, in a way, is ambiguous multistable pattern, but in everyday life, using additional information, we usually resolve or avoid ambiguity [ 8 ]. Nikos Legothetis recently shown that resolution of ambiguity is an assential part of consciousness job [ 1 ]. The objective of this paper is to show that the mathematical models of the perception of ambiguous patterns can be regarded as the basic models of artistic perception