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In evolutionary biology, camouflage (crypsis) is the set of inherited traits that lower the chance an organism is detected or recognised by a predator or prey, including background matching, disruptive coloration that breaks up the body outline, and countershading. Stevens and Merilaita's 2009 review Animal camouflage: current issues and new perspectives set out how these strategies work against a viewer's visual system and how natural selection shapes them. Here the referent is an evolved property of a living animal's appearance, favoured because it reduces predation, and not a pattern a soldier paints on a vehicle, a person's effort to hide social traits, or the study of seeing itself.[1]
In clinical and autism psychology, camouflaging (also called masking) is the use of strategies by autistic people to hide or compensate for autistic characteristics during social interaction, for example scripting conversations, holding back repetitive movements, or forcing eye contact, in order to appear non-autistic. Hull and colleagues' 2019 paper introducing the Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire defined and measured this as a self-reported behaviour with compensation, masking, and assimilation components, and this literature links heavy camouflaging to exhaustion and to strain on mental health. Here the referent is a person's effortful management of how their own social behaviour is read by others, a measured psychological construct, and not an animal's coloration, a military pattern, or a fact about the visual system.[2]
In vision science, camouflage is studied as a problem for the observer: how a visual system, biological or artificial, groups edges and regions into objects, and how concealment defeats that grouping so a target is not separated from its background. Troscianko and colleagues' 2009 review Camouflage and visual perception framed detection and camouflage breaking in terms of the computations a visual system performs on an image. Here the referent is the seeing side of the encounter, the perceptual and computational work of finding or missing a target, and not the animal's trait, the soldier's design, or a person's social behaviour.[3]
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