ISSN 0439-755X
CN 11-1911/B

›› 2000, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (03): 337-347.

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THE GLOBAL PRECEDENCE IN VISUAL INFORMATION PROCESSING

Han Shihul(Beijing Lab of Cognitive Science, Graduate School (Beijing), University of Science and Technology of China, Beijng 100039)   

  • Published:2000-09-25 Online:2000-09-25

Abstract: This paper reviewed the theories of global precedence in visual perception, the underiyingmechanisms, and the related difficulties confronting with these theories. In particular, this paperintroduced the author's recent behavioural and eventrelated potenhal studies of the global precedence,and a new model of global precedence based on interaction between perceptual grouping and selective attention.

Key words: hierarchical stimuli, global property, local property, perceptual grouping, selective attention, event-related potential