Article: Figure-ground assignment in pigeons: Evidence for a figural benefit

Article: The reference frame of figure-ground assignment
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Figure-ground assignment involves determining which visual ... reference frame for figure-ground assignment, but figural assignment could ... reference frame of figure-ground assignment. Possible reference frames ...

Article: The time course of figure-ground reversal
Perception and Psychophysics;  May 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... role of object memory in figure-ground assignment, with objects being more likely to ... task that depends on the figure-ground assignment of the ambiguous display. The short ... and Cale (2001) have shown that a figurai region will only prime itself and not its ...

Article: Visual prior entry for foreground figures
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review;  August 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... between objects). This figure-ground assignment allows resourcelimited processes ... There are many cues for figure-ground assignment, including image cues such as area ... there are many known cues to figure-ground assignment, much less is known about the consequences ...

Article: Concavities count for less in symmetry perception
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... concavities and convexities. If, because of figure-ground assignment, symmetrical curves receive different shape descriptions ... Hence, Baylis and Driver (1995) argued that figure-ground assignment has to precede symmetry perception. Also, Hulleman and ...

Article: Committee grounds Air Force nominee
Human Events;  July 31, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... performance as a pilot. Although Jones in his testimony insisted that he was given the choice of continuing to fly or taking a ground assignment, all four officers (including his former commanding officer at Homestead, Col. Thomas Dyches) repeated their stories ...

Dictionary definition: Turner, Thomas Caldwell
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military;      435 words ... ... air arm during his five year tenure but few funds were being expended on defense at that peaceful time. He served in a ground assignment and flying in China before becoming head of marine aviation again in 1929. This time the onset of the Great Depression ...

Article: The return of object-based attention: Selection of ...
Perception and Psychophysics;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... connectedness was an entry-level process in vision that formed the basis for later visual processes, including figure-ground assignment and part decomposition. Working from the premise that uniform connectedness is an entry-level process that, in principle ...