Elan Barenholtz

Research Area: Visual Perception and Cognition

Contact Information:
Office: 211 Behavioral Science
Telephone: (561) 297-3433
Fax: (561) 297-3360
E-mail: elan.barenholtz AT fau.edu

General Research Interests

Without moving your eyes, try to recognize the objects in your environment. Most likely, you can visually identify many objects far in your periphery, where they are very blurry and poorly resolved. I believe that this form of recognition requires using knowledge of your environment and the objects it contains including the prevalence of certain objects and the spatial relations between them. This 'contextual' knowledge allows us to perform visual identification on the basis of reduced local image information, I am interested in how we obtain this kind of visual knowledge and how we use it in everyday visually guided behavior such as navigation and visual search.

Representative Publications

Visual judgment of similarity across shape transformations: evidence for a compositional model of articulated objects (2008). Acta Psychologica, 128, 331-338.

Reconsidering the role of structure in vision (2007). In The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Vol. 47., Markman, A., & Ross, B. (Eds.)

Determination of visual figure and ground in dynamically deforming shapes (2006) . Barenholtz, E., and Feldman, J. Cognition, 101, 530-544.

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