Abstract:
We argue that the effectiveness of synchronization of oscillatory neural activities coding
simple features, as it relates to perceptual organization, may originate in the temporal
characteristics of resonance that develops in a two-stroke architecture of neural information
processing a cycling between bottom-up and top-down mechanisms. We provide empirical
evidence to support the idea that resonance involves the generation and evaluation of
'models' of spatial and temporal stimulus attributes. By virtue of temporal modeling,
temporally assisted spatial segmentation comes to be very precisely determined by the
combination of both global and local stimulus phase.
