This book presents an overview of different frameworks for understanding perceptual organization, and a state-of-the-art summary of the domain. It describes findings from visual search, illusory contours, and object recognition using electrophysiological measures.

Cognitive Approaches to Perceptual Organization 1. Perceptual Organization and Grouping 2. Perceptual Grouping in Space and in Space-Time: An Exercise in Phenomenological Psychophysics 3. On Figures, Grounds, and Varieties of Surface Completion 4. Visual Perceptual Organization: A Microgenetic Analysis 5. Visual Perception of Objects and Boundaries: A Four-Dimensional Approach Development and Learning in Perceptual Organization 6. The Development of Object Segregation During the First Year of Life 7. Learning to Perceive While Perceiving to Learn Neural Approaches to Perceptual Organization 8. Neural Coding of Border Ownership: Implications for the Theory of Figure-Ground Perception 9. Neuronal Correlates of Perceptual Organization in the Primate Visual System 10. Visual Perceptual Organization: Lessons From Lesions 11. Binding in Vision as a Multistage Process Computational Approaches to Perceptual Organization 12. Perceptual Completion and Memory 13. Neural Basis of Attentive Perceptual Organization