In extending our previous work, we addressed the question of whether different visual
attributes are perceived separately when they belong to different objects, rather than the …

Publisher Summary The fact that perceptual structure, which is taken for granted in everyday
life, constitutes a problem because perception is mediated by a neural and physiological …

In this journal, Palmer and Rock (1994) articulated a principle of perceptual organization
called uniform connectedness (UC); and they contended that previous investigators of …

In his The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems (1966), JJ Gibson proposed the idea
that the optic array, rather than the retinal image, was the proper starting point in the …

Modern studies of perceptual grouping or coherence are described and their theoretical
implications discussed. the concept of “Prägnantz” or “good figure” and its modern …

An investigation was made of the time course of perceptual grouping that is based on two
qualitatively different spatial relationships: proximity and alignment. An index of grouping …

This article argues that phenomenological description and neurophysiological correlation
complement each other in perception research. Whilst phenomena constitute the material …

If you were magically deposited in an unknown city, your first im pression would be of
recognizable objects organized coherently in a meaningful framework. You would see …

Visual neurons coordinate their responses in relation to the stimulus; however, the complex
interplay between a stimulus and the functional dynamics of an assembly still eludes …

The visual world is rich in fragments. Objects occlude one another, so their surrounding
contours are only partially complete. Shadows obscure boundaries, and motion juxtaposes …