The possibility of a link between medial axes (hereafter called symmetries) and figure salience has recently been proposed [Vision Res. 38 (1998) 2323; Vision Res. 38 (1998) 2429]. In this paper we investigated the characteristics of transient visual evoked potentials (VEPs) associated with stimulus figures designed to have different symmetries. Significant trends were observed for VEP components N1 (160–190 ms) and P2 (220–250 ms). N1 and P2 had shorter peak latencies for stimuli with greater symmetry peak amplitudes.
