From Fragments to Objects

Temple Univ., Philadelphia, PA. Sections cover philosophy and history of perceptual unit formation, development, attention, models of segmentation and grouping, and spatiotemporal segmentation and grouping.

Acknowledgements

ix

List of Contributors

xi

I. Philosophy and History of Perceptual Unit Formation

1

(34)

The Concept of an ``Object'' in Perception and Cognition

3

(16)

Robert Schwartz

Balls of Wax and Cans of Worms: The Early History of Object Perception

19

(16)

Margaret Atherton

II. Development

35

(84)

Perceptual Unit Formation in Infancy

37

(34)

Martha E. Arterberry

Perceptual Units and Their Mapping with Language

71

(48)

Barbara Landau

III. Attention

119

(62)

An Object Substitution Theory of Visual Masking

121

(24)

James T. Enns

Vincent Di Lollo

Attention and Unit formation: A Biased Competition Account of Object-Based Attention

145

(36)

Shaun P. Vecera

Marlene Behrmann

IV. Models of Segmentation and Grouping

181

(280)

Geometric and Neural Models of Object Perception

183

(64)

Philip J. Kellman

Sharon E. Guttman

Thomas D. Wickens

Varieties of Grouping and its Role in Determining Surface Layout

247

(18)

Barbara Gillam

Amodal Completion: A Case Study in Grouping

265

(30)

Allison B. Sekuler

Richard F. Murray

Perceptual Organization as Generic Object Recognition

295

(36)

David W. Jacobs

Simplicity, Regularity, and Perceptual Interpretations: A Structural Information Approach

331

(22)

Rob Van Lier

Computational Neural Models of Spatial integration in Perceptual Grouping

353

(48)

Heiko Neumann

Ennio Mingolla

Part-Based Representations of Visual Shape and Implications for Visual Cognition

401

(60)

Manish Singh

Donald D. Hoffman

V. Spatiotemporal Segmentation and Grouping

461

(126)

Gaze Control for Face Learning and Recognition by Humans and Machines

463

(20)

John Henderson

Richard Falk

Silviu Minut

Fred C. Dyer

Sridhar Mahadevan

The Visual Interpretation of Object and Human Movement

483

(26)

Maggie Shiffrar

Contours From Apparent Motion: A Computational Theory

509

(22)

William Prophet

Donald Hoffman

Carol Cicerone

Breathing Illusions and Boundary Formation in Space-Time

531

(26)

Nicola Bruno

Perception of Occluding and Occluded Objects Over Time: Spatiotemporal Segmentation and Unit Formation

557

(30)

Thomas F. Shipley

Douglas W. Cunningham

Author Index

587

(18)

Subject Index

605

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