"Our paper answers the century-old question of the basis ofsubconscious processes in visual perception, specifically, thephenomenon of figure-ground organization," said Rudiger von der Heydt ...

The brain's figure-ground organization decides what part of an image is the main figure and what part is the background, but optical illusions like Rubin's vase can make it hard to tell.

"Our paper answers the century-old question of the basis of subconscious processes in visual perception, specifically, the phenomenon of figure-ground organization," said Rudiger von der Heydt ...