Parallel and Serial Grouping of Image Elements in Visual Perception.

The visual system groups image elements that belong to an object and segregates them from other objects and the background. Important cues for this grouping process are the Gestalt criteria, and most theories propose that these are applied in parallel across the visual scene. Here, we find that Gest...

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Publicado en:Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception & Performance Vol. 36; no. 6; pp. 1443 - 1460
Autores principales: Houtkamp, Roos, Roelfsema, Pieter R.
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Publicado: American Psychological Association December 2010
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