First Published in 1987. Information processing has come to be regarded as one of the central issues in modern psychology. In recent years it has acquired an especially keen interest due to growing amounts of information. This book continues the authors' research and constructs a conceptual model of peculiarities (separate aspects) of visual information processing based on views similar to those by Arbib and Ivanov.

R. M. Granovskaya; I. J. Bereznaya; Alla N.Grigorieva UNIVERSITY Of LENINGRAD

Chapter 1 The Context Problem and Mechanisms of Exhaustive Search Reduction; Chapter 2 Background-Figure Interaction; Chapter 3 Peculiarities of Information Processing by Cerebral Hemispheres; Chapter 4 Whole form Representations; Chapter 5 Hierarchy of Logical Shape Descriptions; Chapter 6 Summary and Conclusions;