In this paper, we propose a conceptual framework for assessing the salience of landmarks
for navigation. Landmark salience is derived as a result of the observer's point of view, both …

Notions of objecthood have traditionally been cast in visuocentric terminology. As a result,
theories of auditory and cross-modal perception have focused more on the differences …

The paradigm based on using compound stimuli for studying global and local processing is
revisited. Noting that not all researchers employ compound stimuli for the same purpose, the …

Abstract In this chapter, Anne Treisman begins by delineating several properties of
subjective experience, such as the fact that conscious experience is' about the world', that …

Reading logographs relies to a greater degree on visual information processes than does
reading alphabetic words. Two experiments examined related memory and judgment effects …

Music impacting on speech processing is vividly evidenced in most reports involving
professional musicians, while the question of whether the facilitative effects of music are …

In this review we consider the logic and the evidence relating to the issue of dynamic
grouping in human vision. Dynamic grouping is required when the visual system is creating …

Learning the acoustic and phonological information in lexical tones is significant for learners
of tonal languages. Although there is a wealth of knowledge from studies of second …

The effects of auditory context on the preattentive and perceptual organization of tone
sequences were investigated. Two sets of experiments were conducted in which the pitch of …

Perceptual multistability has often been explained using the concepts of adaptation and
hysteresis. In this paper we show that effects that would typically be accounted for by …