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 …

Our first review article (Wagemans et al., 2012) on the occasion of the centennial
anniversary of Gestalt psychology focused on perceptual grou** and figure–ground …

Cognitive Science provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the study of the
mind. The authors examine the mind from the perspective of different fields, including …

We present the results of six experiments that demonstrate the impact of visual features of
survey questions on the responses they elicit, the response process they initiate, or both. All …

When remembering a real-world scene, people encode both detailed information about
specific objects and higher order information like the overall gist of the scene. However …

Although numerous studies have measured the strength of visual grou** cues for
controlled psychophysical stimuli, little is known about the statistical utility of these various …

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 …

A theory is presented that attempts to answer two questions. What visual contents can an
observer consciously access at one moment? Answer: only one feature value (eg, green) …

To address the fundamental question of “what are the primitives of visual perception”, a
theory of topological structure and functional hierarchy in visual perception has been …

Recent neurophysiological studies have shown that primary visual cortex, or V1, does more
than passively process image features using the feedforward filters suggested by Hubel and …