Abstract The “affective” and “cognitive” neuroscience approaches to understanding emotion
(AN and CN, respectively) represent potentially synergistic, but as yet unreconciled …

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 …

While psychiatry and clinical psychology have long discussed the topic of unconscious
emotion, and its potentially explanatory role in psychopathology, this topic has only recently …

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 …

A venerable view holds that a border between perception and cognition is built into our
cognitive architecture and that this imposes limits on the way information can flow between …

Every object is represented by semantic information in extension to its low-level properties. It
is well documented that such information biases attention when it is necessary for an …

Abstract Objects are fundamental to scene understanding. Scenes are defined by
embedded objects and how we interact with them. Paradoxically, scene processing in the …

For human perceivers, object perception seems immediate and unambiguous. Following the
Gestalt reaction against structuralism over 100 years ago, it was long held that serial …

Figure–ground assignment is thought to entail inhibitory competition between potential
objects on opposite sides of a shared border; the winner is perceived as the figure, and the …

One hundred years after Gestalt views first took hold our understanding of how perceptual
processes organize the visual field into objects and their local backgrounds ('figure–ground …