Abstract In 1912, Max Wertheimer published his paper on phi motion, widely recognized as
the start of Gestalt psychology. Because of its continued relevance in modern psychology …

Traditional explanations of multistable visual phenomena (eg ambiguous figures, perceptual
rivalry) suggest that the basis for spontaneous reversals in perception lies in antagonistic …

Philosopher Ned Block argues in this book that there is a" joint in nature" between
perception and cognition and that by exploring the nature of that joint, one can solve …

What determines what we see? In contrast to the traditional “modular” understanding of
perception, according to which visual processing is encapsulated from higher-level …

This paper addresses unsupervised discovery and localization of dominant objects from a
noisy image collection with multiple object classes. The setting of this problem is fully …

On Burge's view, every percept is constituted by a" perceptual attribu tive"(that represents an
attribute) and a singular element (that represents an individual). The format of a percept is …

According to some models of visual selective attention, objects in a scene activate
corresponding neural representations, which compete for perceptual awareness and motor …

The assumption that figure-ground segmentation must precede object or shape recognition
has been central to theories of visual perception We showed that assumption to be incorrect …

After presenting evidence about categorization behavior, this paper argues for the following
theses: 1) that there is a border between perception and cognition; 2) that the border is to be …

Whereas most scientists agree that scene context can influence object recognition, the time
course of such object/context interactions is still unknown. To determine the earliest …