For animals with advanced nervous systems, survival and reproduction can depend upon
accurate perception of the environment. To understand how a perceptual system should …

This study investigated the mechanisms of grouping and segregation in natural scenes of
close-up foliage, an important class of scenes for human and non-human primates. Close …

Since all properties (anatomy, physiology and sensory processing mechanisms) of the
human visual system are the product of evolution and postnatal development, it is …

Human observers are capable of detecting animals within novel natural scenes with
remarkable speed and accuracy. Despite the seeming complexity of such decisions it has …

Determining the features of natural stimuli that are most useful for specific natural tasks is
critical for understanding perceptual systems. A new approach is described that involves …

The environments we live in and the tasks we perform in those environments have shaped
the design of our visual systems through evolution and experience. This is an obvious …

The environments in which an organism lives and the tasks it performs to survive and
reproduce shape the design of its perceptual, cognitive and motor systems through evolution …

The algorithmic classification of complex, natural scenes is generally considered a difficult
task due to the large amount of information conveyed by natural images. Work by Simon …

We are accustomed to thinking of the task of vision as being the construction of a detailed
representation of the physical world. However, a paradigm that we term animate vision …

Biologists sometimes make perceptual judgments when collecting data. For example, a
scale of lichen quality or an estimate of amount leaf consumption by beetles might be part of …