Studies on rhetorical features of language have reported both enhancing and adverse
effects on ease of processing. We hypothesized that two explanations may account for these …

The quantization error in a fixed-size Self-Organizing Map (SOM) with unsupervised winner-
take-all learning has previously been used successfully to detect, in minimal computation …

The problem of perceptual organization was studied by Gestalt psychologists in terms of
figure-ground segregation. In this paper we explore a new principle of figure-ground …

Accentuation has been proposed as a general principle of perceptual organization. Here,
we have developed a neurodynamic architecture to explain how accentuation affects …

Neural models of perception clarify how visual illusions arise from adaptive neural
processes. Illusions also provide important insights into how adaptive neural processes …

The segregation of image parts into foreground and background is an important aspect of
the neural computation of 3D scene perception. To achieve such segregation, the brain …

How does the brain maintain stable fusion of 3D scenes when the eyes move? Every eye
movement causes each retinal position to process a different set of scenic features, and thus …

Multistable illusions occur when the visual system interprets the same image in two different
ways. We model illusions using dynamic systems based on Wilson networks, which detect …

We present a follow-up study on the case of a Greek amusic adult, BZ, whose impaired
performance on scale, contour, interval, and meter was reported by Paraskevopoulos …

This article shows how visual illusions arise from neural processes that play an adaptive role
in achieving the remarkable perceptual capabilities of advanced brains. The article clarifies …