Gestalt psychology is often criticized as lacking quantitative measurements and precise
mathematical models. While this is true of the early Gestalt school, today there are many …

Bipolar disorder is a lifelong condition. Today, there is a urgent need to find indicators of the
disease. Specifically, they could be useful to improve the diagnosis and the early detection …

Visual crowding refers to the phenomenon where a target object that is easily identifiable in
isolation becomes difficult to recognize when surrounded by other stimuli (distractors). Many …

Perceptual organization concerns the organization of people's perception into meaningful,
structured entities—often wholes containing parts, with specific interrelationships among the …

Investigations of visual crowding, where a target is difficult to identify because of flanking
elements, has largely used a theoretical perspective based on local interactions where …

In crowding, perception of a target deteriorates in the presence of nearby flankers.
Traditionally, it is thought that visual crowding obeys Bouma's law, ie, all elements within a …

In crowding, perception of a target deteriorates in the presence of nearby flankers.
Surprisingly, perception can be rescued from crowding if additional flankers are added …

Visual perception initiated with a low-level derivation of Spatio-temporal edges and
advances to a higher-level perception of filled surfaces. According to the isomorphic theory …

Schizophrenia patients are known to have deficits in contextual vision. However, results are
often very mixed. In some paradigms, patients do not take the context into account and …

Face identity recognition (FIR) is arguably the ultimate form of recognition for the adult
human brain. Even if the term prosopagnosia is reserved for exceptionally rare brain …