Independent anatomical and functional measures of the V1/V2 boundary in human visual cortex.

abstract：:During observation of an ambiguous Necker cube, our percept changes spontaneously although the external stimulus does not. An EEG paradigm allowing time-resolved EEG measurement during endogenous perceptual reversals recently revealed a chain of ERP correlates beginning with an early occipital positivity at around 130...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Kornmeier J,Pfäffle M,Bach M

更新日期：2011-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Correction of spherical (SA) and longitudinal chromatic aberrations (LCA) significantly improves monocular visual acuity (VA). In this work, the visual effect of SA correction in polychromatic and monochromatic light on binocular visual performance is investigated. A liquid crystal based binocular adaptive optics visu...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Schwarz C,Cánovas C,Manzanera S,Weeber H,Prieto PM,Piers P,Artal P

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Early visual processing is surprisingly flexible even in the adult brain. This flexibility involves both long-term structural plasticity and online adaptations conveyed by top-down feedback. Although this view is supported by rich evidence from both human behavioral studies and invasive electrophysiology in nonhuman m...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Herde L,Uhl J,Rauss K

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how the human brain discriminates complex visual patterns, such as individual faces, is an important issue in Vision Science. Here we tested sensitivity to individual faces using steady-state visual-evoked potentials (SSVEPs). Twelve participants were presented with 90-s sequences of faces appearing at a...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Rossion B,Boremanse A

更新日期：2011-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Gaze behavior during scene and object recognition can highlight the relevant information for a task. For example, salience maps-highlighting regions that have heightened luminance, contrast, color, etc. in a scene-can be used to predict gaze targets. Certain tasks, such as face recognition, result in a typical pattern...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Akhavein H,Farivar R

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research has begun to explore not just the spatial distribution of eye fixations but also the temporal dynamics of how we look at the world. In this investigation, we assess how scene characteristics contribute to these fixation dynamics. In a free-viewing task, participants viewed three scene types: fractal, l...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Wu DW,Anderson NC,Bischof WF,Kingstone A

更新日期：2014-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:It is debated whether different forms of bistable perception result from common or separate neural mechanisms. Binocular rivalry involves perceptual alternations between competing monocular images, whereas ambiguous figures such as the Necker cube lead to alternations between two possible pictorial interpretations. Pr...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Meng M,Tong F

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although observers can discriminate visual targets with long exposures from otherwise-identical targets with shorter exposures, temporally overlapping distracters with an intermediate exposure can produce a striking degradation in performance. This new finding suggests that observers can only estimate one duration at ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Morgan MJ,Giora E,Solomon JA

更新日期：2008-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of target typicality in a categorical visual search task was investigated by cueing observers with a target name, followed by a five-item target present/absent search array in which the target images were rated in a pretest to be high, medium, or low in typicality with respect to the basic-level target cue. C...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Maxfield JT,Stalder WD,Zelinsky GJ

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is conflicting evidence in the literature regarding the role played by attention in perceptual learning. To further examine this issue, we independently manipulated exogenous and endogenous attention and measured the rate of perceptual learning of oriented Gabor patches presented in different quadrants of the vi...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Mukai I,Bahadur K,Kesavabhotla K,Ungerleider LG

更新日期：2011-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate a new type of interaction between suprathreshold color (chromatic) and luminance contrast in the context of binocular vision. When two isoluminant colored disks of identical hue but different saturations are presented to different eyes, the apparent saturation of the resulting "dichoptic" mix is close t...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Kingdom FA,Libenson L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a computational-observer model of the human spatial contrast-sensitivity function based on the Image Systems Engineering Toolbox for Biology (ISETBio) simulation framework. We demonstrate that ISETBio-derived contrast-sensitivity functions agree well with ones derived using traditional ideal-observer approa...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Cottaris NP,Jiang H,Ding X,Wandell BA,Brainard DH

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain is a slave to sense; we see and hear things that are not there and engage in ongoing correction of these illusory experiences, commonly termed pareidolia. The current study investigates whether the predisposition to see meaning in noise is lateralized to one hemisphere or the other and how this predispositio...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Cropper SJ,McCauley A,Gwinn OS,Bartlett M,Nicholls MER

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binocular disparity signals allow for the estimation of three-dimensional shape, even in the absence of monocular depth cues. The perception of such disparity-defined form depends, however, on the linkage of multiple disparity measurements over space. Performance limitations in cyclopean tasks thus inform us about err...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Goutcher R,Hibbard PB

更新日期：2020-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the role of gaze in encoding of object landmarks in navigation. Gaze behavior was measured while participants learnt to navigate in a virtual large-scale environment in order to understand the sampling strategies subjects use to select visual information during navigation. The results showed a consiste...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Hamid SN,Stankiewicz B,Hayhoe M

更新日期：2010-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:When two verniers are presented in rapid succession at the same location, feature fusion occurs. Instead of perceiving two separate verniers, participants typically report perceiving one fused vernier, whose offset is a combination of the two previous verniers, with the later one slightly dominating. Here, we examined...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Hochmitz I,Lauffs MM,Herzog MH,Yeshurun Y

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When reaching for objects, humans make saccades to fixate the object at or near the time the hand begins to move. In order to address whether the CNS relies on a common representation of target positions to plan both saccades and hand movements, we quantified the contributions of visual short-term memory (VSTM) to han...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Issen LA,Knill DC

更新日期：2012-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper explores the nature of the representations used for computing mean visual size of an array of visual objects of different sizes. In Experiment 1 we found that mean size judgments are accurately made even when the individual objects (circles) upon which those judgments were based were distributed between the...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Joo SJ,Shin K,Chong SC,Blake R

更新日期：2009-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Letter discrimination performance is degraded when a letter is presented within an apparent motion (AM) trajectory of a spot. This finding suggests that the internal representation of AM stimuli can perceptually interact with other stimuli. In this study, we demonstrated that AM interference could also occur for patte...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Hidaka S,Nagai M,Sekuler AB,Bennett PJ,Gyoba J

更新日期：2011-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The magnitudes of spike responses of area 17 (striate cortex, area V1) neurons to stimulation of their classical receptive fields were reduced (suppressed) when the stimuli extended into the silent surround regions. We found that when optimally oriented sine-wave drifting grating patches extended into the distant part...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Wang C,Bardy C,Huang JY,FitzGibbon T,Dreher B

更新日期：2009-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In everyday experience, perceived colors of objects remain approximately constant under changes in illumination. This constancy is helpful for identifying objects across viewing conditions. Studies on color constancy often employ monitor simulations of illumination and reflectance changes. Real scenes, however, have f...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Olkkonen M,Witzel C,Hansen T,Gegenfurtner KR

更新日期：2010-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporal context, or adaptation, profoundly affects visual perception. Despite the strength and prevalence of adaptation effects, their functional role in visual processing remains unclear. The effects of spatial context and their functional role are better understood: these effects highlight features that differ from...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Wissig SC,Patterson CA,Kohn A

更新日期：2013-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined whether motion blur accompanying apparent motion (AM) affects the shape of a stimulus presented in the motion path. In a two-alternative forced-choice procedure, observers judged the shape of a Gaussian test stimulus flashed in the path of motion, relative to a reference stimulus, which was a circular Gaus...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Khuu SK,Phu J,Khambiye S

更新日期：2010-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The statistical arrangement of oriented segments in natural scenes was recently proposed to be indicative of a cocircularity rule. In particular, the probability density function of the relative position of two oriented segments was found to be maximal along fixed angles on the plane, consistent with the two segments ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Chow CC,Jin DZ,Treves A

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial attention permits to allocate more processing resources to a restricted portion of the visual space. The influential premotor theory states that the allocation of spatial attention relies on the same processes as those responsible for programming saccadic eye movements. Accordingly, several studies have alread...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Filali-Sadouk N,Castet E,Olivier E,Zenon A

更新日期：2010-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we examine how global translational motion sensitivity varies with the spatial frequency of the elements in local motion and on the eccentricity of stimulation. Using DC-balanced, spatially narrowband elements (radial log Gabors) matched in terms of multiples above contrast threshold, we show that global translat...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Hess RF,Aaen-Stockdale C

更新日期：2008-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent psychophysical studies have shown that perceived timings of events can be dissociated from their physical temporal relationship. In the flash-lag effect (FLE), a flash presented at the same spatiotemporal position as a continuously moving stimulus is perceived to lag behind the moving stimulus. In the present s...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Kanai R,Carlson TA,Verstraten FA,Walsh V

更新日期：2009-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Attentional selection in visual search paradigms and perceptual selection in bistable perception paradigms show functional similarities. For example, both are sensitive to trial history: They are biased toward previously selected targets or interpretations. We investigated whether priming by target selection in visual...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Brinkhuis MA,Kristjánsson Á,Brascamp JW

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perceived stereoscopic slant around a vertical axis is strongly underestimated for isolated surfaces, suggesting that neither uniocular image compression nor linear gradients of absolute disparity are very effective cues. However, slant increases to a level close to geometric prediction if gradients of relative dispar...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Wardle SG,Gillam BJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introducing blur into the color components of a natural scene has very little effect on its percept, whereas blur introduced into the luminance component is very noticeable. Here we quantify the dominance of luminance information in blur detection and examine a number of potential causes. We show that the interaction ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Sharman RJ,McGraw PV,Peirce JW

更新日期：2013-03-22 00:00:00