My research interests are centered on higher-level visual processing. My recent research has focused on the cognitive and neural mechanisms of figure-ground segregation and object-based attention. Recent behavioral studies and computational simulations from my laboratory support an interactive approach to figure-ground segregation. Segregation cues also influence the allocation of visual attention. We have shown that part-boundaries within a single object can result in part-based visual attention.
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