figure-ground

McLuhan would weep to behold such mastery of figure-ground effects.

2009 December 2009

McLuhan would weep to behold such mastery of figure-ground effects.

How about “Somewhat benign, but sort of an a-hole”? - Colby Cosh - Macleans.ca 2009

Does this discussion have anything in common with the figure-ground phenomenon?

Causing a Scene – Brenda Schmidt 2007

Kubovy and Van Valkenburg (2001, 2003) define objecthood in terms of figure-ground segregation, which requires perceptual grouping.

Auditory Perception O'Callaghan, Casey 2009

Such streams are subject to figure-ground shifts, and, like collections of surfaces, they can be attentively tracked through changes to their features and to one's perspective.

Auditory Perception O'Callaghan, Casey 2009

The figure-ground "illusions" have been a famous source of entertainment for years - but they also illustrate that we can only see one figure at a time.

Sotomayor Hearings and the Truth About Bias 2009

McLuhan would weep to behold such mastery of figure-ground effects.

2009 2009

Though they are more skeptical about whether audition parallels vision, Griffiths and Warren (2004) sympathize with a figure-ground characterization but suggest a working notion of an auditory object as “an acoustic experience that produces a two-dimensional image with frequency and time dimensions”

Auditory Perception O'Callaghan, Casey 2009

Geometric card properties that further enhance game play include figure-ground reversibility, handedness, rotational transformation, and perpendicular association.

Archive 2008-05-01 2008

Geometric card properties that further enhance game play include figure-ground reversibility, handedness, rotational transformation, and perpendicular association.

April Board and Card Game Patents 2008