The paradigm based on using compound stimuli for studying global and local processing is
revisited. Noting that not all researchers employ compound stimuli for the same purpose, the …

To address the fundamental question of “what are the primitives of visual perception”, a
theory of topological structure and functional hierarchy in visual perception has been …

Recent evidence from neuropsychology has proven useful in defining neural and cognitive
subsystems involved in certain cognitive processes such as spatial attention (Posner …

The distinction between top-down and bottom-up effects plays a central role in experimental
psychology. But there is a problem with the way it is standardly drawn. Even if there were a …

Despite the fact that we necessarily view objects from one particular position, we generally
achieve representations of them that transcend that special viewpoint. Shape constancy can …

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 …

If three years ago some amiable forecaster had predicted that my name would now be
appearing on a volume on perception, I would have been much surprised and perhaps a …

Since Twin Earth was discovered by American philosophical-space explorers in the 1970s,
the domain of" wide" or externalist or extrinsic properties has expanded. Putnam (1975) …

Abstract [Retraction notice: A retraction for this article was reported in Vol 145 (3) of Journal
of Experimental Psychology: General (see record 2016-07319-002). This retraction is at the …

With the use of the criterion of privileged axes, 6 experiments with 96 undergraduates
showed that analytic processing of saturation and brightness, prototypical integral …