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figure In cognition, a figure is the foreground object that the visual system picks out from its background and to which it assigns borders.

In cognition, a figure is the foreground object that the visual system picks out from its background and to which it assigns borders. It is the part of a scene perceived as standing out against the ground.

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Drafting source: Yip Chakkai; Moroze Ezekiel; Nishina Shigeaki; Yazdanbakhsh Arash. Approaching human visual perception through AI-based representation of figure-ground segregation. 2026; DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1768533; article XML SHA-256 1588ad5c370f084503413f02e9c2ffddf23d0d6eaa2481b2689be1c24da40334. “Approaching human visual perception through AI-based representation of figure-ground segregation” (10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1768533).
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