The role of feedback in the determination of figure and ground: a combined behavioral and modeling study

TY - CHAP

T1 - The role of feedback in the determination of figure and ground

T2 - a combined behavioral and modeling study

AU - Watling, Lawrence

AU - Spratling, Michael

AU - De Meyer, Kris

AU - Johnson, Mark

PY - 2007

Y1 - 2007

N2 - Object knowledge can exert on important influence on even the earliest stages of visual processing. This study demonstrates how a familiarity bias, acquired only briefly before testing, can affect the subsequent segmentation of an otherwise ambiguous figure-ground array, in favor of perceiving the familiar shape as figure. The behavioral data are then replicated using a biologically plausible neural network model that employs feedback connections to implement the demonstrated familiarity bias.

AB - Object knowledge can exert on important influence on even the earliest stages of visual processing. This study demonstrates how a familiarity bias, acquired only briefly before testing, can affect the subsequent segmentation of an otherwise ambiguous figure-ground array, in favor of perceiving the familiar shape as figure. The behavioral data are then replicated using a biologically plausible neural network model that employs feedback connections to implement the demonstrated familiarity bias.

M3 - Conference paper

SN - 9781605605074

VL - N/A

SP - 1629

EP - 1634

BT - 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci2007)

PB - Curran Associates Inc.

ER -