Segregation of an image into figure and ground is an important step in visual processing. Two new papers show that responses in human and monkey brain areas known to be involved in shape ...

The third kind, the kind I use most in my life, is figure-ground reversal. And that says that the solution to the problem is not going to be found in the foreground, it’s going to be found in ...

If you don't comprehend that – that making things seem normal and/or astonishing is a figure-ground reversal, it's a sleight-of-hand, it's something to be manipulated in the face of an audience?