We investigated whether the lower region effect on figure-ground organization (Vecera, Vogel, and Woodman, 2002) would generalize to contextual depth planes in vertical orientations, as is predicted by a theoretical analysis based on the ecological statistics of edges arising from objects that are attached to surfaces of support. Observers viewed left/right ambiguous figure-ground displays that...

a t t e r n T h e o r e t i c L e a r n i n g Abstract The goal of learning from sample data is to extract a concept that captures the underlying pattern while still representing it in a way useful to the investigator. A new approach based on function decomposition in the Pattern Theory framework is presented here. The objective of this extended abstract is threefold. The rst is to provide an o...

The pace of modern science is staggering. The quantities of data now flowing from DNA sequencers, fluorescence and electron microscopes, mass spectrometers, and other mind-blowing instruments leave us faced with information overload. This explosion in data has brought on its heels a concomitant need for efforts at the kinds of synthesis and unification we see in theoretical physics. Often in ce...