Border-ownership coding

• Jonathan Williford, Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
• Rudiger von der Heydt*, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Figure 1: An example of the Rubin face-vase illusion. You can either see two black faces or a single white vase. The viewer can voluntarily switch between seeing the two, but our visual system compulsively sees one or the other as the foreground.

References

• Zhou, H; Friedman, HS; von der Heydt, R (2000). Coding of border ownership in monkey visual cortex. J Neurosci: 6594-6611. PMID 10964965. 

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