Using event-related potentials (ERPs) we investigated the influence of object knowledge on
perceiving partly occluded shapes. We created stimuli based on well-known objects of …

Illusory contours (ICs) are thought to be a result of processes involved in the perceptual
recovery of occluded surfaces. Here, we investigate the relationship between real and …

In order to estimate the shape of objects, the visual system must refer to shape-related
regularities in the (retinal) image. For opaque objects, many such regularities have already …

We describe a new theory explaining the perception of partly occluded objects and illusory
figures, from both static and kinematic information, in a unified framework. Three ideas guide …

The perceptual processes that mediate the ability to efficiently represent object 3D structure
are still not fully understood. The current study was aimed to shed light on these processes …

How do we recognize identities between seen shapes and felt ones? Is this due to
associative learning, or intrinsic connections these sensory modalities? We can address this …

Perception research traditionally investigates how actual states of the world are seen—how
we perceive the shapes, colors, and locations that objects actually have. By contrast …

Humans are remarkably adept at judging shapes and discriminating forms. Forms and
shapes are initially sampled by discrete localized visual filters (or receptive fields) in …

Arguably the most foundational principle in perception research is that our experience of the
world goes beyond the retinal image; we perceive the distal environment itself, not the …

CONCLUSION Perception of objects from information that is fragmentary in space and time
tells much about the char-acter of perception generally. It illustrates, as the gestalt …