Book chapter
Figure–Ground Segregation and Object-Based Attention in Pigeons
How Animals See the World
Oxford University Press
03/14/2012
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195334654.003.0005
Abstract
This chapter reviews behavioral studies of figure-ground segregation in pigeons. In particular, it considers two related areas of research that address the same basic question: Do animals see a world filled with coherent objects, as we do? An object is defined here as a group of locations organized according to perceptual grouping cues (e.g., surface similarity or connectedness) at earlier stages of visual processing, instead of structural, invariant representations that are formed at higher levels of visual processing and are used for object recognition. The chapter first reviews research that concentrates on the ability of animals to segregate figures that require attention and action from backgrounds that can be ignored. It then attempts to answer the question: Once an object is segregated from the background, how does it affect attention?
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Figure–Ground Segregation and Object-Based Attention in Pigeons
- Creators
- Olga F LazarevaEdward A Wasserman
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- How Animals See the World
- DOI
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195334654.003.0005
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/14/2012
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070989302771
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