Visual perception: converging mechanisms of attention, binding, and segmentation?
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.
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Department of Physiology of Cognitive Processes, Spemannstr. 38, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. andreas.bartels@tuebingen.mpg.de
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D000818:Animals; D001288:Attention; D005403:Fixation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D000882:Haplorhini / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000502:physiology; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*