Andrew Olson

TL;DR: Investigating how these regions are modulated by two common variables in reading found that increasing word length increases the demands on both local feature and global shape processing, but increasing visual contrast increases the demanding on local feature processing while decreasing the demand on global shapeprocessing.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that extinction need not be spatial in nature, but may be determined by characteristics of the objects to be selected, and suggested that selection of objects for action requires that the 'winners' produced by the independent competitive biases for selection are bound together within distinct neural areas concerned with object properties and space.

TL;DR: It is shown that there are effects of grouping on both extinction and illusory conjunctions when the tasks require report of object shape, and a two-stage account of visual binding: form elements are first bound together locally into shapes, and this is followed by a second stage of binding in which shapes are integrated with surface details.

TL;DR: The results suggest that case-mixing disruption effects are due to the introduction of inappropriate grouping between letters with the same size and case, and the disruption of transletter features, which support a model of visual lexical access based on the input from multiple visually based units.