Features and Objects in Visual Processing (PDF)

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This article from Scientific American discusses the visual processing of objects, focusing on the identification of features as part of early perception and the way that processing different properties are carried out automatically.  The paper considers how objects are perceived and how we discern them from the background and from each other. 

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