ABSTRACT
The cognitive processes involved in finding camouflaged targets have commonly been studied by paper-and-pencil tests that require solution of embedded figures problems. The target is a simple geometrical form shown to subjects who must find it in a larger, more complex pattern. The parts of the target are generally easy to see, but, at least initially, the whole target is not perceived as a figure in the figure-ground organization of the camouflaging pattern (Gottschaldt, 1926). The target is said to be embedded in the perceptual organization of the pattern (Palmer, 1977).
