Abstract
People readily perceive and act upon objects, but before objects are perceived, perceptual processes operate to organize the visual input into coherent units. One function of perceptual organization is to determine which borders in the visual field are bounding edges of objects or surfaces, which are borders of patterns or shadows, and which are corners formed by the intersection of two planar surfaces. Those that are deemed to be bounding edges of objects are perceived as separate entities at different distances from the viewer. The near entity appears to be shaped, or configured, by the border (this is the figure); the far entity appears shapeless near the border it shares with the figure and appears to continue behind it as a local background, or ground. There has been much debate regarding what factors influence figure and ground assignment and when and where it occurs in the visual processing hierarchy.
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