Perceptual organization and object recognition

视觉系统的主要目标之一是识别物体，以便我们可以适当地与它们互动。尽管对人、地点和事物的识别通常看起来是毫不费力和瞬间的，但这种识别背后的过程是复杂的，视觉系统必须经历巨大的障碍才能进行识别。例如，到达我们眼睛的原始图像的各种元素必须得到适当的组织，这样我们才能感知到连贯的、有意义的、完整的对象，而不是不适当的、令人困惑的场景。考虑到识别过程的复杂性，我们对识别背后的神经机制了解相对较少也就不足为奇了。目前提案的目标是促进这种理解，重点是与感知组织和物体识别有关的问题。

One of the main goals of the visual system is to recognize objects so that we may interact with them appropriately. Although recognition of people, places and things typically appears to be effortless and instantaneous, the processes underlying such recognition are complex and the visual system must undergo tremendous obstacles for recognition to occur. For example, various elements of the raw images that reach our eyes must be organized appropriately, so that we perceive coherent, meaningful, complete objects rather than inappropriately semented, confusing scenes. Given the complexity of the recognition process, it is not surprising that we have relatively little understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying recognition. The objective of the current proposal is to advance that understanding, with an emphasis on issues related to perceptual organization and object recognition.