Ambiguous threats differ from threats with obvious causes — say, a fire in the building — for which the response is clear. They also differ from unmistakable threats that may lack ...

To test this hypothesis, we used a figure-ground segregation paradigm wherein human observers reported the orientation of a rectangular figure region in a texture stimulus composed of Gabor annuli.

The authors aimed to investigate whether gamma synchrony serves a functional role in figure-ground perception. They specifically sought to test whether the stimulus-dependence of gamma synchrony, ...