Principal Investigator Mary Potter
A graduate student in the lab studies the interaction between a foreground object and its background, in colored photographs presented very briefly and masked. When the background and object are mutually consistent (e.g., a football player on a football field), both the report of the object and the report of the background are more accurate, as compared to when they are inconsistent (e.g., a football player in a church). Ongoing work examines scenes with multiple foreground objects.