Publications
Peterson, M. A., and Hochberg, J.
(1983). Opposed-set measurement procedure: A quantitative analysis of the
role of local cues and intention in form perception. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 9,
183-193.
Peterson, M. A. (1986). Illusory concomitant motion in
ambiguous stereograms: Evidence for nonsensory components in perceptual
organization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and
Performance, 12, 50-60.
Peterson, M. A. (1986).
Something for everyone: Four new sensation and perception texts [Review of
Sensation & Perception, Sensation and Perception, Introduction to
Sensation/Perception, Perception]. Contemporary Psychology, 31,
137-138.
Hochberg, J., and Peterson, M. A. (1987). Piecemeal
organization and cognitive components in object perception: Perceptually coupled
responses to moving objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General,
116, 370-380.
Peterson, M. A., and Shyi, G. C.
-W. (1988). The perception of real and illusory concomitant rotation
in a three-dimensional cube. Perception & Psychophysics,
44, 31-42.
Johnson, M. K., Peterson, M. A., Chua-Yap, E. and Rose, P.
(1989). Frequency judgments: The problem of defining a perceptual
event. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and
Cognition, 15, 126-136.
Hochberg, J., and Peterson, M. A.
(1989). Pictures in the mind's eye: Images in our perception of
world and art. In M. Schuster and B. Woschek (Eds.), Nonverbale
Kommunication durch Bilder. (pp. 33 – 51) Stuttgart: Verlag fur
Angewandte Psychologie.
Peterson, M. A., and Hochberg, J.
(1989). Necessary considerations for a theory of form perception: A
theoretical and empirical reply to Boselie and Leeuwenberg, Perception,
18, 105-119.
Kihlstrom, J. F., Glisky, M. L.,
Peterson, M. A., Harvey, E. M., and Rose, P. M. (1991). Vividness and control of
mental imagery: A psychometric analysis. Journal of Mental Imagery,
15, 133-142.
Peterson, M. A., and Gibson, B. S. (1991). Directing spatial
attention within an object: Altering the functional equivalence of shape
descriptions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and
Performance, 17, 170-182.
Peterson, M. A., and Gibson, B.
S. (1991). The initial identification of figure-ground relationships:
Contributions from shape recognition routines. Bulletin of the
Psychonomic Society, 29, 199-202.
Schacter, D. L., Cooper, L. A., Delaney, S. M., Peterson, M. A.,
and Tharan, M. (1991). Implicit memory for possible and impossible
objects: Constraints on the construction of structural descriptions.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and
Cognition, 17, 3-19.
Peterson, M. A., Harvey, E. H., and Weidenbacher, H. L.
(1991). Shape recognition inputs to figure-ground organization: Which
route counts? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and
Performance, 17, 1075-1089.
Peterson, M. A., Kihlstrom, J.
F., Rose, P. M., and Glisky, M. L. (1992). Mental images can be ambiguous:
Reconstruals and reference-frame reversals. Memory & Cognition,
20, 107-123.
Shyi, G. C. -W., and Peterson, M.
A. (1992). Perceptual organization in a brief glance: The effects of figure
size, figure location, and the attentional focus. Chinese Journal of
Psychology, 34, 1-18.
Peterson, M. A., and Gibson, B. S. (1993). Shape recognition
contributions to figure-ground organization in three-dimensional displays.
Cognitive Psychology, 25, 383-429.
Peterson, M. A. (1993). The
ambiguity of mental images: Insights regarding the structure of shape memory and
it's function in creativity. In B. Roskos-Ewoldsen, M. J. Intons-Peterson,
and R. Anderson (Eds.), Imagery, Creativity, and Discovery: A Cognitive
Perspective. (pp. 151 – 185) Amsterdam: North Holland.
Hochberg, J., and Peterson, M. A.
(1993). Mental representations of occluded objects: Sequential disclosure
and intentional construal. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia,
20, 805-820. (Monograph edition published in English in honor of
Gaetano Kanizsa.)
Peterson, M. A. (1994). Object recognition processes can and
do operate before figure-ground organization. Current Directions in
Psychological Science, 3, 105-111.
Peterson, M. A. (1994).
The proper placement of uniform connectedness. Psychonomic Bulletin and
Review, 1, 509-514.
Peterson, M. A., and Gibson, B. S. (1994). Must
figure-ground organization precede object recognition? An assumption in
peril. Psychological Science, 5, 253-259.
Peterson, M. A., and Gibson, B. S. (1994). Object
recognition contributions to figure-ground organization: Operations on outlines
and subjective contours. Perception & Psychophysics, 56,
551-564.
Gibson, B. S., and Peterson, M. A. (1994). Does
orientation-independent object recognition precede orientation-dependent
recognition? Evidence from a cueing paradigm. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 20, 299-316.
Bloom,
P., Peterson, M. A., Nadel. L., and Garrett, M. F. (1996). Language and
Space. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
Peterson, M. A., Nadel, L.,
Bloom, P., and Garrett, M. F. ( 1996). Space and Language. In P.
Bloom, M. A. Peterson, L. Nadel, and M. F. Garrett (Eds.), Language and
Space. (pp. 553 – 577) Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
Peterson, M. A., Gerhardstein, P.
C., Mennemeier, M., & Rapcsak, S. Z. (1998). Object-centered attentional
biases and object recognition contributions to scene segmentation in left- and
right-hemisphere-damaged patients. Psychobiology, 26,
557-570.
Gerhardstein, P. C., Peterson, M. A., & Rapcsak, S. Z. (1998).
Age-related hemispheric asymmetries in object discrimination. Journal of
Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 20,
174-185.
Peterson, M. A. (1999). What's in a stage name? Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25,
276-286.
Peterson, M. A. (1999). Organization, Segregation and Object Recognition. Intellectica, 28, 37 -
51.
Peterson, M. A. (1999).
High-level vision. In R. A. Wilson, F. C. Keil (Eds.), The MIT
Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. (pp. 374-377) Cambridge, MA:
The MIT Press.
Peterson, M. A. (1999). Knowledge and intention can penetrate
vision. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 389 - 390.
Peterson, M. A., de Gelder, B., Rapcsak, S. Z., Gerhardstein, P.
C., and Bachoud-Lévi, A.-C. (2000). Object memory effects on figure
assignment: Conscious object recognition is not necessary or sufficient.
Vision Research, 40, 1549-1567.
Suzuki, S., and Peterson, M. A. (2000). Multiplicative effects of
intention on the perception of bistable apparent motion. Psychological
Science, 11, 202-209.
Peterson, M. A. Object
perception. (2001). In E. B. Goldstein (Ed.), Blackwell Handbook of
Perception, Chapter 6, pp. 168-203. Oxford: Blackwell
Publishers.
Peterson, M. A. & Kim, J. H. (2001). On what is bound in
figures and grounds. Visual Cognition. Special Issue: "Neural Binding of
Space and Time,"8, 329-348.
Gibson, B. S. and Peterson, M. A.
(2001). Inattentional blindness and attentional capture: Evidence for
attention-based theories of visual salience. In C. L. Folk & B. S. Gibson
(Eds.), Attraction, Distraction, and Action: Multiple Perspectives on
Attentional Capture. (pp. 51-76) Elsevier Science: Oxford,
London.
Peterson, M. A. (2003).
Vision: Top-down effects. In L. Nadel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive
Science, volume 4, pp. 500-504. London: Macmillan.
Peterson, M. A. (2003). On
figures, grounds, and varieties of amodal surface completion. In R. Kimchi, M.
Behrmann, & C. Olson (Eds.) Perceptual
Organization in Vision: Behavioral and Neural Perspectives. pp. 87-116.
Mahwah, NJ:
LEA.
Peterson, M. A., & Rhodes,
Gillian (2003). Perception of Faces, Objects, and Scenes: Analytic and
Holistic Processes. New York: Oxford
University Press.
Peterson, M. A. (2003).
Overlapping partial configurations in object memory: an alternative solution to
classic problems in perception and recognition. In M. A. Peterson & G.
Rhodes (Eds.) Perception of Faces, Objects, and Scenes: Analytic and Holistic
Processes. pp. 269-294.
New York: Oxford
University Press.
Peterson, M. A., & Rhodes,
Gillian (2003). Analytic and holistic processing: The view through different
lenses. In M. A. Peterson & G. Rhodes (Eds.), Perception of Faces,
Objects, and Scenes: Analytic and Holistic Processes. pp. 3-19.
New
York: Oxford University Press.
Peterson, M. A. &
Skow-Grant, E. (2003). Memory and learning in figure-ground
perception. In B. Ross & D. Irwin (Eds.) Cognitive Vision:
Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 42, 1-34.
Peterson, M. A. & Lampignano, D. L. (2003). Implicit memory
for novel figure-ground displays includes a history of border competition.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 29,
808-822.
Rauschenberger, R., Peterson, M. A., Mosca, F., & Bruno, N.
(2004). Amodal completion in visual search: Preemption or context effects?
Psychological Science, 15, 351-355.
Trujillo, L.T., Peterson, M.A., Kaszniak, A.W., & Allen, J. J.
B. (2005). EEG Phase Synchrony: An Investigation of Recording and Analysis
Artifacts in the Context of a Visual Cognition Experiment. Clinical
Neurophysiology, 116, 172-189.
Peterson, M. A., & Enns, J. T. (2005). The edge complex: Implicit perceptual memory for cross-edge competition
leading to figure assignment. Perception & Psychophysics, 14,
727-740.
Burge, J., Peterson, M. A.,
Palmer, S. E. (2005). Ordinal configural cues combine with metric disparity in
depth perception. Journal of Vision, 5(6), 534-542.
Behrmann, M., Peterson, M. A., Suzuki, S., & Moscovitch, M. (2006). Independent
representation of parts and the relations between them: Evidence from
integrative agnosia. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception
and Performance, 32(5), 1169-1184.
Peterson, M. A., Gillam,
B., Sedgwick, H. A. (2007). In the Mind’s Eye: Julian Hochberg’s
Contributions to Our Understanding of the Perception of Pictures, Films, and the
World. NY: Oxford University Press.
Peterson, M. A. (2007).
The Piecemeal, Constructive, and Schematic Nature of Perception. In M. A.
Peterson, B. Gillam, H. A. Sedgwick (Eds). In the Mind’s Eye: Julian
Hochberg’s Contributions to Our Understanding of the Perception of Pictures,
Films, and the World. Pp. 419-428. NY: Oxford University Press.
Gillam, B., Sedgwick,
H. A., & Peterson, Mary A. (2007). Introduction: In the Mind’s Eye. In M. A.
Peterson, B. Gillam, H. A. Sedgwick (Eds). In the Mind’s Eye: Julian
Hochberg’s Contributions to Our Understanding of the Perception of Pictures,
Films, and the World. Pp. xv – xxi. NY: Oxford University Press.
Aviezer, H., Landau, A. N., Robertson, L. C., Peterson, M. A., Soroker, N.,
Sacher, Y., Bonneh, Y., & Bentin, S. (2007). Implicit integration in a case of
integrative visual agnosia. Neuropsychologia, 45 (9), 2066-2077.
Peterson, M. A., & Skow, E. (2008). Suppression Of Shape Properties On The
Ground Side Of An Edge: Evidence For A Competitive Model Of Figure Assignment.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34
(2), 251-267.
Thomas, C., Moya, L., Avidan, G., Humphreys, K., Jung, K.J., Peterson, M. and
Behrmann, M. (2008). Reduction in white matter connectivity, revealed by DTI,
may account for age-related changes in face perception. Journal of Cognitive
Neuroscience, 20 (2), 268-284.
Kimchi, R. & Peterson, M. A. (2008). Figure-ground Segmentation Can Occur
Without Attention. Psychological
Science, 19(7), 660-668.
Peterson, M. A., & Salvagio, E.
(2008). Inhibitory Competition in Figure-Ground Perception: Context and
Convexity. Journal of Vision, 8(16): 4, 1-13
Gothard, K., Brooks, K., & Peterson, M. A.
(2009). Multiple perceptual mechanisms of face processing in macaque monkeys.
Animal Cognition, 12 (1), 155-167.
Tommasi, L., Peterson,
M. A., & Nadel, L. (in press). Cognitive Biology: Evolutionary and
Developmental Perspectives on Mind, Brain and Behavior. Cambridge, MA:
MIT Press.
Tommasi, L., Peterson,
M. A., & Nadel, L. (in press). Cognitive Biology: The New Cognitive
Sciences? In Cognitive Biology: Evolutionary and Developmental Perspectives on
Mind, Brain and Behavior. L. Tommasi, L. Nadel, & M. A. Peterson (Eds).
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Peterson, M. A. & Salvagio, E. (2009).
Figure-ground perception. Scholarpedia.