▪ Abstract Recent progress in the study of attention and performance is discussed, focusing
on the nature of attentional control and the effects of practice. Generally speaking, the effects …

The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate that the study of visual processing
abnormalities in schizophrenia offers a unifying perspective on the etiology, development …

Traditional views of visual processing suggest that early visual neurons in areas V1 and V2
are static spatiotemporal filters that extract local features from a visual scene. The extracted …

Recent research [Parkhurst, D., Law, K., & Niebur, E., 2002. Modeling the role of salience in
the allocation of overt visual attention. Vision Research 42 (1)(2002) 107–123] showed that …

This book is a succinct introduction to the orienting of attention. Richard Wright and
Lawrence Ward describe the covert orienting literature clearly and concisely, illustrating it …

Two relevant dimensions are revealed within which developmental patterns of perceptual
organization might be investigated. Within the local–integrative dimension, employing a …

The question of how local image features on the retina are integrated into perceived global
shapes is central to our understanding of human visual perception. Psychophysical …

Psychophysical, neurophysiological and anatomical research of the last few years has
converged on a new explanation of how the components of a contour become integrated …

This review focuses on low and intermediate stages of contour shape processing. It is split
into two main sections,'Contour Detection'and 'Shape Discrimination and Representation' …

The spiking response of a primary visual cortical cell to a stimulus placed within its receptive
field can be up-and down-regulated by the simultaneous presentation of objects or scenes …