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Saccadic Compression of Rectangle and Kanizsa Figures: Now You See It, Now You Don’t 1 2 3 4 3,5 6 Atsushi Noritake *, Bob Uttl , Masahiko Terao , Masayoshi Nagai , Junji Watanabe , Akihiro Yagi 1 Brain Science Institute, Tamagawa University, Tokyo, Japan, 2 Psychology Department, Mount Royal College, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 3 Graduate School of Humanities, Kwansei Gakuin University, Hyogo, Japan, 4 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaragi, Japan, 5 PRESTO Japan Science and Science and Technology Agency, Kanagawa, Japan, 6 Department of Psychology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Hyogo, Japan Abstract Background: Observers misperceive the location of points within a scene as compressed towards the goal of a saccade. However, recent studies suggest that saccadic compression does not occur for discrete elements such as dots when they are perceived as unified objects like a rectangle. Methodology/Principal Findings: We investigated the magnitude of horizontal vs. vertical compression for Kanizsa figure (a collection of discrete elements unified into single perceptual objects by illusory contours) and control rectangle figures. Participants were presented with Kanizsa and control figures and had to decide whether the horizontal or vertical length of stimulus was longer using the two-alternative force choice method. Our findings show that large but not small Kanizsa figures are perceived as compressed, that such compression is large in the horizontal dimension and small or nil in the vertical dimension. In contrast to recent findings, we found no saccadic compression for control rectangles. Conclusions: Our data suggest that compressio