Humans can recognize the gist of a novel image in a single glance, independent of its
complexity. How is this remarkable feat accomplished? On the basis of behavioral and …

To interact with the world, we have to make sense of the continuous sensory input conveying
information about our environment. A recent surge of studies has investigated the processes …

The book you are about to read is about research that asks questions like" How do our
senses operate?"" What is the connection between nervous system activity and perception?" …

Many experiments have shown that the human visual system makes extensive use of
contextual information for facilitating object search in natural scenes. However, the question …

We use a simple modification to a conventional SLR camera to capture images of several
hundred scenes in colour (RGB) and near-infrared (NIR). We show that the addition of near …

How fast are visual stimuli categorized as faces by the human brain? Because of their high
temporal resolution and the possibility to record simultaneously from the whole brain …

What do we see when we glance at a natural scene and how does it change as the glance
becomes longer? We asked naive subjects to report in a free-form format what they saw …

Purpose: Sensory-substitution devices (SSDs) provide auditory or tactile representations of
visual information. These devices often generate unpleasant sensations and mostly lack …

The extent to which object identification is influenced by the background of the scene is still
controversial. On the one hand, the global context of a scene might be considered as an …

In 3 experiments the authors used a new contextual bias paradigm to explore how quickly
information is extracted from a scene to activate gist, whether color contributes to this …