The rodent visual system has attracted great interest in recent years due to its experimental
tractability, but the fundamental mechanisms used by the mouse to represent the visual …

Segmentation, the computation of object boundaries, is one of the most important steps in
intermediate visual processing. Previous studies have reported cells across visual cortex …

During visual perception, the brain enhances the representations of image regions that
belong to figures and suppresses those that belong to the background. Natural images …

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Figure-ground organization and border-ownership assignment are essential for
understanding natural scenes. It has been shown that many neurons in the macaque visual …

Figure-ground segregation is the process by which the visual system identifies image
elements of figures and segregates them from the background. Previous studies examined …

Humans are capable of rapidly determining whether regions in a visual scene appear as
figures in the foreground or as background, yet how figure-ground segregation occurs in the …

Image segmentation is a fundamental aspect of vision and a critical part of scene
understanding. Our visual system rapidly and effortlessly segments scenes into component …

Here we use the steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) to study attentive versus non-
attentive processing of simple texture-defined shapes. By “tagging” the figure and …

Inferring figure-ground organization in two-dimensional images may require different
complementary strategies. For isolated objects, it has been shown that mechanisms in visual …