The visual world consciously perceived is very different from the retinal mosaic of intensities
and colors that arises from external objects. We perceive an organized visual world …

The visual world consciously perceived is very different from the chaotic juxtaposition of
different colors and shapes that stimulate the individual retinal receptors. Objects are seen …

The problem of perceptual organization is central to understanding vision. Its importance—
and its difficulty—can perhaps be most easily appreciated by considering the output of the …

The visual world consciously perceived is very different from the raw visual information or
retinal mosaic of intensities and colors that arises from external objects. From the …

An exploration of ideas emanating from behavioural, developmental, neurophysiological,
neuropsychological and computational approaches to the problem of visual perceptual …

Visual perception is viewed as the interaction between external forces, generated by the
pattern of stimulation at the retinal mosaic and internal forces, which tend to organize the …

A principle of perceptual organization, called uniform connectedness (UC), is described, and
a theoretical approach to perceptual organization is proposed in which this principle plays a …

``I stand at the window and see a house, trees, sky. Theoretically I might say there were 327
brightnesses and nuances of colour. Do I have``327''? No. I have sky, house, and trees. It is …

This editorial provides an overview of the current issue of Vision Research. Papers in the
first half of this special issue address point statistics of the visual image, characterizing the …

Seeing shapes and patterns is the major capacity inherent in our visual system. It depends,
to be sure, on the ability to distinguish differences in light intensity and color, but this is not …