A simplicity principle in unsupervised human categorization

EM Pothos, N Chater - Cognitive science, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
We address the problem of predicting how people will spontaneously divide into groups a
set of novel items. This is a process akin to perceptual organization. We therefore employ …

Lower region: a new cue for figure-ground assignment.

SP Vecera, EK Vogel, GF Woodman - Journal of Experimental …, 2002 - psycnet.apa.org
Figure-ground assignment is an important visual process; humans recognize, attend to, and
act on figures, not backgrounds. There are many visual cues for figure-ground assignment. A …

Perceptual organization in vision

SE Palmer - Stevens' handbook of experimental psychology, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
The field of perceptual organization in vision is surveyed and analyzed from
phenomenological, empirical, and theoretical perspectives. Structuralist, Gestaltist, and …

Segmentation and selection contribute to local processing in hierarchical analysis

S Han, GW Humphreys - The Quarterly Journal of Experimental …, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
The present study examined the role of segmentation and selection processes when we
respond to local elements in hierarchical stimuli. The ease of segmentation and selection of …

[图书][B] Organizing objects and scenes.

SE Palmer - 2002 - psycnet.apa.org
This reprinted chapter originally appeared in Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenology,
1999, 255-269. It explores perceptual organization and begins with a discussion on the …

Speed of comprehension of visualized ordered sets.

C Körner, D Albert - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2002 - psycnet.apa.org
The authors investigated the effects of visual properties of hierarchical graphs on speed of
comprehension: planarity (crossing of lines), slopes (orientation of lines), and levels …