Two experiments were conducted to assess 3-month-old infants' processing of moving point-
light displays depicting the biomechanical motions of a person walking. The displays were …

Observers judged whether 2 successive computer-displayed rotations of a cube were the
same or different. With respect to the observers, each rotation was about a vertical axis (Y), a …

Abstract Representations are a key explanatory device used by cognitive psychologists to
account for human behavior. Understanding the effects of context and experience on the …

Spatial data generalisation or abstraction is a vital computational procedure in data
presentation (notably in cartography) and in data integration. This paper considers the …

The perceptual principles that allow people to group visually similar objects into entities, or
groups, have been called the Gestalt Laws of perception. Two well known principles of …

Strokes are relatively simple linear elements readily perceived in a network. Apart from their
role as graphical elements, strokes reflect lines of flow or movement within the network itself …

Under the assumption of a general viewpoint, particular image properties, such as
cotermination, straightness, and parallelism, can be used to infer, more or less reliably, the …

Originally published in 1987 this volume presented a comprehensive state-of-the-art
account of what was known about the psychology of reading at the time. All the fundamental …

A successful project in automated map generalization under-taken at the National Atlas of
Canada made extensive use of the implicit perceptual information present in road and river …

In this paper, a continuous valued measure for local color symmetry is introduced. The new
algorithm is an extension of the successful gray value-based symmetry map proposed by …