Perceptual organization as nested control

DOI10.1007/BF00346136MaRDI QIDQ1062646zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Michael Leyton

Publication date 1984

Published in Biological Cybernetics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00346136

zbMATH Keywords

applications of group theoryConfigurations in event perceptionenvironmental stimulifactorization sequencesformnested structures of controlorientationperceptual organizationshape description

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Pattern recognition, speech recognition (68T10) Psychophysics and psychophysiology; perception (91E30) Mathematical psychology (91E99) Applications of graph theory to circuits and networks (94C15)

Review text

The paper introduces an approach to a unified explanation of several types of perceptual phenomena. It is argued that perceptual organization is the structuring of environmental stimuli into so called nested structures of control. A mathematical model for such a structuration is proposed, based on group theory. The perceptual areas for which the proposed theory is offered in this paper are \textit{D. Marr} and \textit{H. K. Nishihara}'s [Representation and recognition of the spatial organization of three-dimensional shapes. Proc. R. Soc. Lond., Ser. B 200, 169-294 (1978)] theory of shape description, the orientation-and-form phenomenon and \textit{G. Johansson}'s [Configurations in event perception. Almqvist and Wiksell (1950)] motion phenomenon, for instance.

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