The Role of Attention in Figure-Ground Segregation in Areas V1 and V4 of the Visual Cortex
The Role of Attention in Figure-Ground Segregation in Areas V1 and V4 of the Visual Cortex
Jasper Poort,F. Raudies,3 Authors,P. Roelfsema
2012 · DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.04.032
Neuron · 227 Citations
TLDR
It is found that boundary detection is an early process that depends little on attention, whereas region filling occurs later and is facilitated by visual attention, which acts in an object-based manner.