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Perceptual Coherence : Hearing and Seeing

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about poorer performance by creating alternative grouping arrangements<br />

that would not affect searching for a single item.<br />

Filter Models: Back-Pocket Models<br />

The Transition Between Noise <strong>and</strong> Structure 163<br />

Figure 4.7. Incompatible combinations of orientation <strong>and</strong> brightness make segregation<br />

ambiguous. In (A), segregation due to orientation is effortless. In (B), segregation<br />

by orientation is pitted against segregation by brightness <strong>and</strong> is difficult to<br />

perceive. However, in (C) the r<strong>and</strong>om variation in brightness does not interfere with<br />

segmentation by orientation to the same degree because the r<strong>and</strong>om variation does<br />

not create an alternative grouping. Adapted from “Different Approaches to the<br />

Coding of Visual Segmentation,” by H.-C. Nothdurft, 1997, in M. Jenkin <strong>and</strong> L.<br />

Harris (Eds.), Computational <strong>and</strong> Psychophysical Mechanisms of Visual Coding<br />

(pp. 20–43). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.<br />

The above research making use of line segments at differing orientations<br />

seems to call for an explanatory model in terms of the simple <strong>and</strong> complex

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