http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/jhu-htb080905.php
"Our paper answers the century-old question of the basis of
subconscious processes in visual perception, specifically, the
phenomenon of figure-ground organization," said Rudiger von der Heydt,
a professor in the Zanvyl Krieger Mind-Brain Institute. "Early in the
20th century, the Gestalt psychologists postulated the existence of
mechanisms that process visual information automatically and
independently of what we know, think or expect. Since then, there has
always been the question as to whether these mechanisms actually exist.
They do. Our work suggests that the system continuously organizes the
whole scene, even though we usually are attending only to a small part
of it."
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