The authors investigated how human adults encode and remember parts of multielement
scenes composed of recursively embedded visual shape combinations. The authors found …

Viewing a stepped edge is likely to prompt the perceptual assignment of one side of the
edge as figure. This study demonstrates that even a single brief glance at a novel edge …

Perception involves inferring the structure of the environment fromsensory data. As in any
process of inductive inference, there are infinitely many hypotheses about environmental …

Beck (1972) pointed out that grouping tasks, where one set of elements is distinguished from
another, do not imply associative links within either set of elements but could rely on …

The notion of a" primitive" or" basic feature" plays a central role in the study of the functioning
of perceptual systems. On the one hand it is used to determine the class of properties of the …

Symmetry has long been considered a configural cue, but we failed to find evidence for this
claim in previous experiments using brief exposures. In our displays, symmetric regions with …