The holographic approach (HA) to goodness (PA van der Helm & ELJ Leeuwenberg, 1991,
1996, 1999) is an ideal-observer theory at, in D. Marr's (1982) terms, the computational and …

Many psychologists contributed to the subjects are quite diverse; nonetheless, there is a
common attempt to define “higher level descriptions” or codes for capturing the essence of …

The particular spatial transformations that are psychologically favored in real, apparent, or
imagined motion may reflect internalizations of principles governing the rigid motions of …

This article reviews a number of approaches that perceptual psychologists have taken in
attempting to understand 2-dimensional (2-D) shape recognition. Various strands in the …

Modern Theories of Gestalt Perception. This paper examines four modem theories that
address the problem of how holistic contextual effects might occur in the perception of …

The emergence of Gestalt psychology is richly documented (eg, Boring, 1950; Henle, 1980;
Hochberg, 1979; Wertheimer, 1974). Its refutations of atomism, associationism, and …

This collection of research on object perception focuses on holistic and featural properties of
objects, the mechanisms that produce such properties, how people choose one type of …

Computer systems based on the notion of the computer as assistant have recently become
the focus of intense interest. The expanding role of the computer in everyday life and the …

As a rule, the discriminability of multiple symmetries from random patterns increases with the
number of symmetry axes, but this number does not seem to be the only determinant. In …

We describe a psychophysical investigation of the effects of object complexity and familiarity
on the variation of recognition time and recognition accuracy over different views of novel 3D …