In very fast recognition tasks, scenes are identified as fast as isolated objects How can this
efficiency be achieved, considering the large number of component objects and interfering …

The extent to which object identification is influenced by the background of the scene is still
controversial. On the one hand, the global context of a scene might be considered as an …

Human observers are able to rapidly and accurately categorize natural scenes, but the
representation mediating this feat is still unknown. Here we propose a framework of rapid …

Efficient categorizations of complex visual stimuli require effective encodings of their
distinctive properties. However, the question remains of how processes of object and scene …

Visual scene analysis in humans has been characterized by the presence of regions in
extrastriate cortex that are selectively responsive to scenes compared with objects or faces …

It was recently demonstrated that detecting target objects (eg, animals) in natural scenes can
be done in a dual-task paradigm, in the near absence of spatial attention. Under the same …

Traditionally, recognizing the objects within a scene has been treated as a prerequisite to
recognizing the scene itself. However, research now suggests that the ability to rapidly …

Recent evidence suggests that scene recognition across views is impaired when an array of
objects rotates relative to a stationary observer, but not when the observer moves relative to …

What information is available from a brief glance at a novel scene? Although previous efforts
to answer this question have focused on scene categorization or object detection, real-world …

Studies of scene perception have shown that the visual system is particularly sensitive to
global properties such as the overall layout of a scene. Such global properties cannot be …