Localized information is necessary for scene categorization, including the Natural/Man-made distinction.

The Time Course of Natural Scene Perception with Reduced Attention Scene Perception with Reduced Attention Author Names and Affiliations

20 Attention is thought to impose an informational bottleneck on vision by selecting 21 particular information from visual scenes for enhanced processing. Behavioral 22 evidence suggests, however, that some scene information can be extracted even 23 when attention is directed elsewhere. Here, we investigated the neural correlates of 24 this ability by examining how attention affects electrophys...

Rapid visual categorization of natural scene contexts with equalized amplitude spectrum and increasing phase noise.

This study aimed to determine the extent to which rapid visual context categorization relies on global scene statistics, such as diagnostic amplitude spectrum information. We measured performance in a Natural vs. Man-made context categorization task using a set of achromatic photographs of natural scenes equalized in average luminance, global contrast, and spectral energy. Results suggest that ...

Adaptation and attention in higher visual perception

Differences in the low-level image statistics of environmental scenes contain sufficient information to characterize different types of environments. Briefly displayed visual scenes can be strongly influenced by adaptation to the statistical characteristics of the prevailing visual input. We have previously reported an apparent processing boundary between basic categories of natural and man-mad...

Processing scene context: Fast categorization and object interference

The extent to which object identification is influenced by the background of the scene is still controversial. On the one hand, the global context of a scene might be considered as an ultimate representation, suggesting that object processing is performed almost systematically before scene context analysis. Alternatively, the gist of a scene could be extracted sufficiently early to be able to i...

The natural/man-made distinction is made before basic-level distinctions in scene gist processing