An important component of routine visual behavior is the ability to find one item in a visual
world filled with other, distracting items. This ability to perform visual search has been the …

It has been suggested that saliency mechanisms play a role in perceptual organization. This
work evaluates the plausibility of a recently proposed generic principle for visual saliency …

The Gestalt law of “good continuation” has been used to describe a variety of phenomena
demonstrating the importance of continuity in human perception. In this study, we consider …

This paper describes a method for synthesizing images that match the texture appearance of
a given digitized sample. This synthesis is completely automatic and requires only the …

The studies described here use functional magnetic resonance imaging to test whether
common or distinct cognitive and/or neural mechanisms are involved in extracting object …

The authors propose a new mechanism for prioritizing the selection of new events: visual
marking. In a modified conjunction search task the authors presented one set of distractors …

In visual search, both attentional and non-attentional sensory processes contribute to set-
size effects. Here, non-attentional sensory effects were controlled and the remaining effects …

Arrays of lines or blobs were used to investigate the role of features vs feature contrast in
preattentive vision. This study continues earlier work on orientation cues and extends it into …

A quantitative model is developed to predict the perceived direction of moving two-
dimensional patterns. The model incorporates both a simple motion energy pathway and a …

This paper examines how observers estimate the overall orientation of spatially
disorganised textures containing variable orientation. Experiments used asymmetrical …