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- The Oxford Handbook of Perceptual Organization
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Historical and conceptual background: Gestalt theory
- Philosophical background: Phenomenology
- Methodological background: Experimental phenomenology
- Traditional and new principles of perceptual grouping
- Emergent features and feature combination
- Symmetry perception
- The perception of hierarchical structure
- Seeing statistical regularities
- Texture perception
- Contour integration: Psychophysical, neurophysiological, and computational perspectives
- Bridging the dimensional gap: Perceptual organization of contour into two-dimensional shape
- Visual representation of contour and shape
- Low-level and high-level contributions to figure-ground organization
- Figures and holes
- Perceptual completions
- The neural mechanisms of figure-ground segregation
- Neural mechanisms of figure-ground organization: Border-ownership, competition and perceptual switching
- Border inference and border ownership: The challenge of integrating geometry and topology
- Perceptual organization in lightness
- Achromatic transparency
- Perceptual organization of color
- The perceptual representation of transparency, lightness, and gloss
- Apparent motion and reference frames
- Perceptual organization and the aperture problem
- Stereokinetic effect, kinetic depth effect, and structure from motion
- Interactions of form and motion in the perception of moving objects
- Dynamic grouping motion: A method for determining perceptual organization for objects with connected surfaces
- Biological and body motion perception
- Auditory perceptual organization
- Tactile and haptic perceptual organization
- Cross-modal perceptual organization
- Sensory substitution: A new perceptual experience
- Different modes of visual organization for perception and for action
- Development of perceptual organization in infancy
- Individual differences in local and global perceptual organization
- Mutual interplay between perceptual organization and attention: A neuropsychological perspective
- Holistic face perception
- Binocular rivalry and perceptual ambiguity
- Perceptual organization and consciousness
- The temporal organization of perception
- Camouflage and perceptual organization in the animal kingdom
- Design Insights: Gestalt, Bauhaus, and Japanese Gardens
- Perceptual organization in visual art
- Hierarchical organization by and-or tree
- Probabilistic models of perceptual features
- On the dynamic perceptual characteristics of Gestalten: Theory-based methods
- Hierarchical stages or emergence in perceptual integration?
- Cortical dynamics and oscillations: What controls what we see?
- Bayesian models of perceptual organization
- Simplicity in perceptual organization
- Gestalts as ecological templates
- Index of Names
- Subject Index
Abstract and Keywords
Perceptual features—properties of objects as the visual system represents them—are a central construct of perception. Classically, features have been treated as deterministic qualities of images, assigned definite values based on image structure. But the development of probabilistic models of perception has led to a new way of understanding features, treating them as probabilistic estimates of parameters of the scene. This chapter briefly develops the probabilistic conception of features, illustrating it with examples drawn from the literature on perceptual organization. Major topics include non-accidental features and non-local features.
Keywords: perception, probability, perceptual features, perceptual organization
Jacob Feldman
Jacob Feldman, Department of Psychology, Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University
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- The Oxford Handbook of Perceptual Organization
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Historical and conceptual background: Gestalt theory
- Philosophical background: Phenomenology
- Methodological background: Experimental phenomenology
- Traditional and new principles of perceptual grouping
- Emergent features and feature combination
- Symmetry perception
- The perception of hierarchical structure
- Seeing statistical regularities
- Texture perception
- Contour integration: Psychophysical, neurophysiological, and computational perspectives
- Bridging the dimensional gap: Perceptual organization of contour into two-dimensional shape
- Visual representation of contour and shape
- Low-level and high-level contributions to figure-ground organization
- Figures and holes
- Perceptual completions
- The neural mechanisms of figure-ground segregation
- Neural mechanisms of figure-ground organization: Border-ownership, competition and perceptual switching
- Border inference and border ownership: The challenge of integrating geometry and topology
- Perceptual organization in lightness
- Achromatic transparency
- Perceptual organization of color
- The perceptual representation of transparency, lightness, and gloss
- Apparent motion and reference frames
- Perceptual organization and the aperture problem
- Stereokinetic effect, kinetic depth effect, and structure from motion
- Interactions of form and motion in the perception of moving objects
- Dynamic grouping motion: A method for determining perceptual organization for objects with connected surfaces
- Biological and body motion perception
- Auditory perceptual organization
- Tactile and haptic perceptual organization
- Cross-modal perceptual organization
- Sensory substitution: A new perceptual experience
- Different modes of visual organization for perception and for action
- Development of perceptual organization in infancy
- Individual differences in local and global perceptual organization
- Mutual interplay between perceptual organization and attention: A neuropsychological perspective
- Holistic face perception
- Binocular rivalry and perceptual ambiguity
- Perceptual organization and consciousness
- The temporal organization of perception
- Camouflage and perceptual organization in the animal kingdom
- Design Insights: Gestalt, Bauhaus, and Japanese Gardens
- Perceptual organization in visual art
- Hierarchical organization by and-or tree
- Probabilistic models of perceptual features
- On the dynamic perceptual characteristics of Gestalten: Theory-based methods
- Hierarchical stages or emergence in perceptual integration?
- Cortical dynamics and oscillations: What controls what we see?
- Bayesian models of perceptual organization
- Simplicity in perceptual organization
- Gestalts as ecological templates
- Index of Names
- Subject Index
