Cavanagh and Leclerc shape-from-shadow pictures: do line versions fail because of the polarity of the regions or the contour?

abstract：:A history of the observational era of vision is presented through selected descriptions of phenomena by natural philosophers from Aristotle to Wheatstone. The descriptions are listed under the headings of optics, colour, subjective visual phenomena, motion perception, eye movements, binocular vision, and space percept...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Wade NJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of an additional external upright frame was studied in three experiments to separate the role of visuovestibular, global, and local mechanisms in the rod-and-frame illusion (RFI). In the first experiment, carried out in a dark room, the external frame surrounded a large tilted frame. Rod-setting errors to...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Spinelli D,Antonucci G,Daini R,Fanzon D,Zoccolotti P

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Van Tuijl's neon color effect arises in the Ehrenstein figure if a colored cross is added such as to connect the black arms across the central gap. The effect consists of a circular veil of color in the illusory area and has the same hue as the inducing cross. The neon-like coloration is uniform, or when elicited by t...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Redies C,Spillman L

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A veridical estimate of viewing distance is required in order to determine the metric structure of objects from binocular stereopsis. One example of a judgment of metric structure, which we used in our experiment, is the apparently circular cylinder task (E B Johnston, 1991 Vision Research 31 1351-1360). Most studies ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Glennerster A,Rogers BJ,Bradshaw MF

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual environments often contain multiple elements, some of which are similar to one another or spatially grouped together. In the current study we investigated how one can use perceptual groups in representing ensemble features of the groups. In experiment 1 we found that participants' performance improved when item...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Im HY,Chong SC

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perception of real depth includes information on stereopsis and distance. How both interact in the visual pathway was the subject of a study performed on the behaving monkey. Neurons in the primary visual cortex (area V1) have their activity, visual and/or spontaneous, modulated by the viewing distance. Disparity sele...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Trotter Y

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The past two decades have seen remarkable advances in photo-realistic rendering of everything from inanimate objects to landscapes, animals, and humans. We previously showed that despite these tremendous advances, human observers remain fairly good at distinguishing computer-generated from photographic images. Buildin...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Mader B,Banks MS,Farid H

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was shown by magnitude estimation that the perception of causality first described by Michotte (1946/1963) also occurs consistently and strongly with stroboscopic, ie apparent or phi, movement. This is so when the 'causal' movement is stroboscopic and the 'caused' movement real, when these movements are reversed, a...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Gordon IE,Day RH,Stecher EJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each of a group of one-month-old infants was reinforced, contingent upon nonutritive sucking, with its mother's voice and the voice of a stranger. In this experiment, two conditions were applied. Under the first, the mother's speech was aimed at communicating with the infant, while, under the second, the mother's spee...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Mehler J,Bertoncini J,Barriere M

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Response latencies were measured to vibrotactile stimulation delivered to the forefingers of the left or right hands which were positioned ipsilaterally or contralaterally (across the midline) in left or right hemispace. While the two hands did not differ in speed of response, either hand performed better when located...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Bradshaw JL,Nathan G,Nettleton NC,Pierson JM,Wilson LE

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When a shape defined by a set of dots plotted along its contour is presented in a sequence of frames within the boundaries of a slit, and in each frame only one dot (featureless frame) or two dots (feature frame) are displayed, a whole moving dotted shape is perceived. Masking techniques and psychophysical measures ha...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Casco C,Morgan M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is hypothesized that a negative correlation exists between the readiness with which two visual stimuli display rivalry and the magnitude of the inhibition effects between the corresponding neural channels. With binocular rivalry being more readily observed than monocular rivalry, it is predicted that lateral inhibi...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Walker P

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three experiments were conducted to investigate whether a locus of binocular correspondence extends eccentrically from the vertical horopter. In experiment 1, we investigated whether the backward inclination of the vertical horopter was manifested in the angle at which readers prefer to orient the page. All observers ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Grove PM,Kaneko H,Ono H

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How does the developing brain of the human infant solve the feature-binding problem when visual stimuli consisting of multiple colored objects are presented? A habituation--dishabituation procedure revealed that 1-month-old infants have the ability to discriminate changes in the conjunction of a familiar shape and col...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Taga G,Ikejiri T,Tachibana T,Shimojo S,Soeda A,Takeuchi K,Konishi Y

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Boselie and Leeuwenberg (1986) recently defended their version of the minimum principle, called structural information theory or SIT, against a varied set of criticisms. Two of the most notable of these criticisms are (i) that perceptual organization can proceed as a piecemeal, rather than as a global, process (as dem...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Peterson MA,Hochberg J

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subjects listened to descriptions of familiar objects and the spatial relations between them and attempted to visualize these objects as a composite scene. The time taken to generate a composite visual image, measured from the end of the verbal description, increased dramatically and linearly with the number of object...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Beech JR,Allport DA

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between apparent size and apparent distance is given by Emmert's law, which states that a retinal image is proportional in size to the distance of the surface it is projected upon. This principle also applies to retinal afterimages in that they, too, will change in apparent size if distance cues sugge...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Bross M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cosmetics alter social perceptions, and prior work suggests that cosmetic use may aid female intrasexual competition, making women appear more dominant to other women but more prestigious to other men. It is unclear whether these findings reflect general improvements in perceptions of traits related to women's dominan...

journal_title：Perception

authors： James EA,Jenkins S,Watkins CD

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies suggested that there are interconnections between two numeral modalities of symbolic notation and nonsymbolic notation (array of dots), differences and similarities of the processing, and representation of the two modalities have both been found in previous research. However, whether there are differe...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Zhang Y,You X,Zhu R

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under suitable conditions, pupillary dilation is a reliable index of processing activity. Pupil size was tracked in male and female observers following the presentation of face stimuli for an age-judgment task. The eyes on the faces were either directed towards the observer or deviated to the side. Pupil dilation acco...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Porter G,Hood BM,Troscianko T

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Display inversion severely impedes veridical perception of point-light biological motion (Pavlova and Sokolov, 2000 Perception & Psychophysics 62 889-899; Sumi, 1984 Perception 13 283-286). Here, by using a spontaneous-recognition paradigm, we ask whether prior information about display orientation improves biological...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Pavlova M,Sokolov A

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper focuses on Galileo's conception of perception. I take as my starting point the interpretation of the Galilean text by Piccolino and Wade (2008, Perception 37 1312-1340): Galileo's eye: a new vision of the senses in the work of Galileo Galilei. Three points are discussed: the criticism of naive realis...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Sinico M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ternus display is a moving visual stimulus which elicits two very different percepts, according to the length of the interstimulus interval (ISI) between each frame of the motion sequence. These two percepts, referred to as element motion and group motion, have previously been analysed in terms of the operation of...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Scott-Samuel NE,Hess RF

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern developments in machine vision and object recognition have generated renewed interest in the proposal for drawing inferences put forward by the Rev. Thomas Bayes (1701-1759). In this connection the epistemological studies by Hermann Helmholtz (1821-1894) are often cited as laying the foundation of the currently...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Westheimer G

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A thorough analysis of the literature on retinal image stabilization, as well as our own experimental data, present evidence that Yarbus's concept, implying inevitable and irreversible fading of a visible image evoked by stabilized retinal stimulus of any size, color, and luminance in 1 to 3 s after its onset, is not ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Rozhkova GI,Nikolaev PP

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The visual system uses an extraretinal pursuit eye movement signal to disambiguate the perception of depth from motion parallax. Visual motion in the same direction as the pursuit is perceived nearer in depth while visual motion in the opposite direction as pursuit is perceived farther in depth. This explanation of de...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Ratzlaff M,Nawrot M

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Times for recognition of fruity flavors in six gummy candies were measured using an electromyography-based system in 23 young healthy participants. They were instructed to chew one of the gummy candies at a random order and to press a button as soon as possible when they recognized what flavor was. The measured 181 re...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Miyaoka S,Iwamori H,Miyaoka Y

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of visual attention on binocular fusion limits by using Posner's spatial cueing paradigm that entails cued shifts of attentional focus. Results showed that attention decreases the fusion limit. Observers perceived diplopia of a binocular line within +/-26.5 arcmin disparity (+/- correspond to un...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Kihara K,Ono H

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tactile counterpart of diplopia has recently been described: tactile diplopia or diplesthesia. The human fingers show a rather precise organization of the cutaneous areas eliciting diplesthesia. In particular, these areas are very extensive between nonadjacent fingers (second and fourth, second and fifth, and thir...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Benedetti F

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When the dynamic visual noise of an untuned television set is viewed with image defocusing (positive lenses) and with a narrow vertical obstruction partially blocking the pupil of one eye, the video 'snow' seems to separate into two stable surfaces at different depths, divided by a vertical discontinuity. The main fea...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Enright JT

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00