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Contour integration: Psychophysical, neurophysiological, and computational perspectives

Year: 2014

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: One of the important roles of our visual system is to detect and segregate objects. Neurons in the early visual system extract local image features from the visual scene. To combine these features into separate, global objects, the visual system must perform some kind of grouping operation. One such operation is contour integration. Contours form the outlines of objects, and are the first step in shape perception. We discuss the mechanism of contour integration from psychophysical, neurophysiological, and computational perspectives.

Source: Open Access at Essex (University of Essex)

Authors: Robert F. Hess, Keith A. May, Serge O. Dumoulin

Language: English

Topic: Visual perception and processing mechanisms

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Awards: G3388070591, G6731699848, Visual perception: neural mechanisms of inference

OpenAlex ID: W2586520024