We see the world in scenes, where visual objects occur in rich surroundings, often
embedded in a typical context with other related objects. How does the human brain analyse …

In the real world, objects never occur in isolation; they co-vary with other objects and
particular environments, providing a rich source of contextual associations to be exploited by …

Abstract Objects in our environment tend to be grouped in typical contexts. How does the
human brain analyze such associations between visual objects and their specific context …

Visual context information constrains what to expect and where to look, facilitating search for
and recognition of objects embedded in complex displays. This article reviews a new …

Context is critical for recognizing environments and for searching for objects within them:
contextual associations have been shown to modulate reaction time and object recognition …

The neural mechanisms subserving visual recognition are traditionally described in terms of
bottom-up analysis, whereby increasingly complex aspects of the visual input are processed …

The extent to which object identification is influenced by the background of the scene is still
controversial. On the one hand, the global context of a scene might be considered as an …

To interact with the world, we have to make sense of the continuous sensory input conveying
information about our environment. A recent surge of studies has investigated the processes …

In a number of studies the context provided by a real-world scene has been claimed to have
a mandatory, perceptual effect on the identification of individual objects in such a scene …

▪ Abstract The visual image formed on the retina represents an amalgam of visual scene
properties, including the reflectances of surfaces, their relative positions, and the type of …