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What is a perceptual object? This question seems to be straightforward yet its answer has become one of the most central and also controversial issues in many areas of cognitive sciences.
The “global-first” topological approach ties a formal definition of perceptual objects to invariance over topological transformation, and the core intuitive notion of a perceptual object - the holistic identity preserved over shape-changing transformations - may be precisely characterized as topological invariants, such as connectivity and holes.
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Chen, L., Zhou, K., Qian, W., Meng, Q. (2011). The Global-First Topological Definition of Perceptual Objects, and Its Neural Correlation in Anterior Temporal Lobe. In: Zhong, N., Callaghan, V., Ghorbani, A.A., Hu, B. (eds) Active Media Technology. AMT 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6890. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23620-4_3
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