FEATURE BINDING, ATTENTION AND OBJECT PERCEPTION

The seemingly effortless ability to perceive meaningful objects in an integrated scene actually depends on complex visual processes. The 'bi nding problem' concerns the way in which we select and integrate the s eparate features of objects in the correct combinations. Experiments s uggest that attention plays a central role in solving this problem. So me neurological patients show a dramatic breakdown in the ability to s ee several objects, their deficits suggest a role for the parietal cor tex in the binding process. However, Indirect measures of priming and interference suggest that more information may be implicitly available than we can consciously access.