Perceiving visually presented objects: recognition, awareness, and modularity.
Object perception may involve seeing, recognition, preparation of actions, and emotional responses--functions that human brain imaging and neuropsychology suggest are localized separately. Perhaps because of this specialization, object perception is remarkably rapid and efficient. Representations of componential structure and interpolation from view-dependent images both play a part in object recognition. Unattended objects may be implicitly registered, but recent experiments suggest that attention is required to bind features, to represent three-dimensional structure, and to mediate awareness.
Treisman
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Department of Psychology, Princeton University, New Jersey 08544-1010, USA. treisman@phoenix.princeton.edu
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D001364:Awareness / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D005556:Form Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology