Seeing what’s possible: Disconnected visual parts are confused for their potential wholes.

objects for real ones. This pattern held for several types of objects and transformations, could not be explained by various forms of response bias, and persisted even when shape information was completely incidental to the task. We suggest that possible states of the world are not only contemplated in deliberate reflection but also automatically represented by more basic mechanisms of perception and attention. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).