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The examples of fragmented
figures indicate that past
experience with the objects
represented affects our
perception of the figures --
otherwise, we would be
unlikely to hit upon the
reorganization that allows us to
see a face in profile. Past
experience also affects our
perception of these figures in
another way. Robert Leeper,
then at Cornell University, has
shown that, if observers are
presented with these
fragmented figures again some
time after they first succeed in
identifying them, they can
always perceive them
correctly, even when shown
them very briefly. This greater
ease in reorganizing such
figures is based on experience
with the fragmented figures
themselves rather than on
experience with the objects
they represent.