Why does the world look to us as it does? Generally speaking, this question has received
two types of answers in the cognitive sciences in the past fifty or so years. According to the …

Fish are a complex taxonomic group, whose diversity and distance from other vertebrates
well suits the comparative investigation of brain and behavior: in fish species we observe …

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This chapter discusses the phenomena of perceptual completion. First, a historic overview
on the phenomena of amodal and modal completion is given. Next, various approaches and …

Users of optical see-through head-mounted displays (OHMD) perceive color as a blend of
the display color and the background. Color-blending is a major usability challenge as it …

If a picture is worth a thousand words, as an English idiom goes, what should those words—
or, rather, descriptors—capture? What format of image representation would be sufficiently …

We studied the effects of learning on amodal completion of partly occluded shapes. Amodal
completion may originate from local characteristics of the partly occluded contours, resulting …

In the visual environment, objects often appear behind occluding surfaces, yet they are
automatically and effortlessly perceived as complete. Here, we examined whether visually …

Most objects can be recognized easily even when they are partly occluded. This also holds
when several overlapping objects share the same surface features (self-splitting objects) …

How efficiently do people integrate the disconnected image fragments that fall on their eyes
when they view partly occluded objects? In the present study, I used a psychophysical …