Adaptation is ubiquitous in the human visual system, allowing recalibration to the statistical
regularities of its input. Previous work has shown that global scene properties such as …

The ability to quickly and accurately categorize our environment into meaningful scene
categories has been linked to the fast processing of global scene properties. Here, we …

The initial categorization of complex visual scenes is a very rapid process. Here we find no
differences in performance for upright and inverted images arguing for a neural mechanism …

Traditionally, recognizing the objects within a scene has been treated as a prerequisite to
recognizing the scene itself. However, research now suggests that the ability to rapidly …

Studies of scene perception have shown that the visual system is particularly sensitive to
global properties such as the overall layout of a scene. Such global properties cannot be …

How does object perception influence scene perception? A recent study of ultrarapid scene
categorization (OR Joubert, GA Rousselet, D. Fize, & M. Fabre-Thorpe, 2007) reported …

Context is critical for recognizing environments and for searching for objects within them:
contextual associations have been shown to modulate reaction time and object recognition …

Categorization of scenes is a fundamental process of human vision that allows us to
efficiently and rapidly analyze our surroundings. Several studies have explored the …

Visual analysis follows a default, predominantly coarse-to-fine processing sequence. Low
spatial frequencies (LSF) are processed more rapidly than high spatial frequencies (HSF) …

Human scene understanding is remarkable: with only a brief glance at an image, an
abundance of information is availablespatial layout, scene function, semantic label, etc …