Abstract In 1912, Max Wertheimer published his paper on phi motion, widely recognized as
the start of Gestalt psychology. Because of its continued relevance in modern psychology …

Our first review article (Wagemans et al., 2012) on the occasion of the centennial
anniversary of Gestalt psychology focused on perceptual grouping and figure–ground …

Contemporary neural networks still fall short of human-level generalization, which extends
far beyond our direct experiences. In this paper, we argue that the underlying cause for this …

Common-sense physical reasoning is an essential ingredient for any intelligent agent
operating in the real-world. For example, it can be used to simulate the environment, or to …

Research on human infants has begun to shed light on early-developing processes for
segmenting perceptual arrays into objects. Infants appear to perceive objects by analyzing …

Pattern recognition, image processing and computer vision are closely linked areas which
have seen enormous progress in the last fifty years. Their applications in our daily life …

Presented as a series of lectures, this important volume achieves four major goals: 1) It
integrates the results of the author's research as applied to pattern perception--reviewing …

How the human visual system determines the lightness of a surface, that is, its whiteness,
blackness, or grayness, remains--like vision in general--a mystery. In fact, we have not even …

Experiments are reported that assessed the ability of people, without vision, to locate the
positions of objects from imagined points of observation that are related to their actual …

The modern study of perception began when Fechner published his 'Elements of
Psychophysics' in 1860. This book has guided most perception research ever since. It has …