Visual Perception: Converging Mechanisms of Attention, Binding, and Segmentation?
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Visual scenes are cluttered. Recent evidence suggests that areas as early as V1 and V2 help making sense of the scene by segmenting them into distinct objects, separating foreground and background, and binding features.
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These experiments show how top-down propagation in the current model can be used for segmentation, for the assignment of border-ownership, and for the binding of features corresponding to a top-level hypothesis.
“These experiments show how top-down propagation in the current model can be used for segmentation, for the assignment of border-ownership, and for the 'binding' of features corresponding to a top-level hypothesis [62].”
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- Authors
- Bartels, A.
- Affiliations
- Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Bartels, Andreas
- Venue
- Current Biology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2009-04
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- R300-R302
- ISSN
- 0960-9822 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2046218024
- Cited by
- 17
- References
- 21
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 0.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Current Biology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (submittedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Keywords
- visual perception, attention, feature binding, object segmentation, foreground-background segmentation, early visual cortex, primary visual cortex, V2, scene perception, visual clutter
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Haplorhini, Attention, Fixation, Ocular, Humans, Neurons, Visual Cortex, Visual Pathways, Visual Perception
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