The effect of name category and discriminability on the search characteristics of colour sets.

abstract：:The earliest known explicit and unambiguous employment of representation in external media is in the form of figurative depictions of large mammals during the Upper Palaeolithic. These images, though often created with evident technical skill and intimate knowledge of the subject matter, are frequently characterised b...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Cheyne JA,Meschino L,Smilek D

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Can listeners distinguish unfamiliar performers playing the same piece on the same instrument? Professional performers recorded two expressive and two inexpressive interpretations of a short organ piece. Nonmusicians and musicians listened to these recordings and grouped together excerpts they thought had been played ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Gingras B,Lagrandeur-Ponce T,Giordano BL,McAdams S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A returning idea among some Bayesians in research on human visual perceptual organization is that the surprisal of something (i.e., the negative logarithm of its probability) expresses its complexity (i.e., the length of its shortest description). Bayes' rule is a powerful modeling tool and descriptive simplicity is a...

journal_title：Perception

authors： van der Helm PA

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In prior work from this laboratory, we have examined how accurately subjects can judge collinearity, i.e. alignment, as a function of the angular position of stimulus elements. In those experiments, subjects were presented with a line segment (or a pair of dots) which varied across the 360 degrees range of angular pos...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Greene E,Frawley W

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of a foreground stimulus on vection (illusory perception of self-motion induced by a moving background stimulus) were examined in two experiments. The experiments reveal that the presentation of a foreground pattern with a moving background stimulus may affect vection. The foreground stimulus facilitated v...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Nakamura S,Shimojo S

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food choice and food intake are guided by both sensory and metabolic processes. The senses of taste and smell play a key role in the sensory effects on choice and intake. This article provides a comprehensive overview of, and will argue for, the differential role of smell and taste for eating behavior by focusing on a...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Boesveldt S,de Graaf K

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Konkle and Oliva (in press, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance) found that the preferred ('canonical') visual size of a picture of an object within a frame is proportional to the logarithm of its known physical size. They used within-participants designs on several tasks, including ha...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Linsen S,Leyssen MH,Sammartino J,Palmer SE

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have revealed a new role for colour vision in visual scene analysis: colour vision facilitates shadow identification. Shadows are important features of the visual scene, providing information about the shape, depth, and movement of objects. To be useful for perception, however, shadows must be distinguished from ot...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Kingdom FA,Beauce C,Hunter L

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some experimental and theoretical approaches to surface-colour perception depend on approximating surface reflectance spectra by low-dimensional models. In the psychophysical experiment reported here, observers had to discriminate between patterns of Munsell surfaces and their spectral approximations under either the ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Oxtoby EK,Foster DH

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The range of spatial displacements over which cyclopean (stereoscopic) apparent motion is perceived was investigated. The cyclopean stimuli were created from retinal disparity embedded in dynamic random-dot stereograms. In one experiment, the displacement range for crossed-disparity cyclopean motion was compared with ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Phinney R,Wilson R,Hays B,Peters K,Patterson R

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Underwood (1975) has used judgments of duration to compare the attentional demands of learning and recall. His study is critically discussed and two further experiments are reported. In experiment 1 subjects spent 50 s learning a list of words and a further 50 s either trying to recall them or learning another list. I...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Gray C

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When extended outdoor scenes are imaged with magnification of 1 in optical, electronic, or computer-generated displays, scene features appear smaller and farther than in direct view. This has been shown to occur in various periscopic and camera-viewfinder displays outdoors in daylight. In four experiments it was found...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Meehan JW

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual representation of three-dimensional (3-D) objects in our environment is a crucial question, for human as well as for machine vision. Some basics are reviewed of a viewer-centred model of 3-D objects, aspect graphs, which represents a 3-D object by all its topologically stable visible image contours (its aspects...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Van Effelterre T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orientation sensitivity in the peripheral visual field has been tested in two tasks: (a) setting horizontal the orientation of a grating at various retinal eccentricities, and (b) matching the orientation of a peripherally viewed grating as close as possible to an oblique reference viewed foveally. Both performances f...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Spinelli D,Bazzeo A,Vicario GB

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How do humans combine the velocity information from two moving gratings (plaids) to detect pattern motion direction?-We are still unable to answer this question. The 'intersection of constraints' rule (IOC-Adelson and Movshon, 1982 Nature 300 523-525), and the 'vector average' rule (VA-Wilson et al, 1992 Visual Neuros...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Bowns L

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique of monocular eye patching was used to measure the response of infants three and four months old to nasally and temporally placed stimuli at various eccentricities in the visual field. The results indicated a field of field of binocular overlap of approximately 60 deg in infants three months old and 80 deg ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Finlay D,Quinn K,Ivinskis A

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Almost a hundred years ago, the Russian filmmaker Lev Kuleshov conducted his now famous editing experiment in which different objects were added to a given film scene featuring a neutral face. It is said that the audience interpreted the unchanged facial expression as a function of the added object (e.g., an added sou...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Baranowski AM,Hecht H

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structure-from-motion (SFM) perception is hypothesised to be mediated by units that sense the near-far relationships in transparency-from-motion (TFM) and orientation-from-motion (OFM). The frequency of subjective reversals during observation of ambiguous SFM displays is considerably decreased when either the directio...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Poom L

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subjects were exposed to an optical rotation of visual reafferences from hand movements. This is known to produce visuomotor adaptation. An experiment is reported where it also induced a perceptual aftereffect measured as a displacement of the apparent vertical and as an ocular cyclotorsion, both in the direction of t...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Courjon JH,Jeannerod M,Prablanc C

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier studies have shown the size of kinaesthetically presented two-dimensional movement patterns to be significantly overestimated. Whether this size overestimation is characteristic of the kinaesthetic system alone has not been established. Two experiments are reported which were designed to investigate size judgm...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Laszlo JI,Broderick P

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Backward masking and its possible connection with the perception of odour mixtures has been investigated. Temporal competition between odorants in a binary mixture was tested by artificially creating a delay between one odour (the target) and a second, stronger, odour (the mask) during a single natural sniff. To test ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Rouby C,Holley A

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique is described for measuring visual preferences in cats. The method involves a self-presentation paradigm, but provides strict control of the visual field and orientation of contours in the field. Two procedures are presented: a single-choice design and a multiple-choice design, both of which use duration of...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Emerson VF,Timney B

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pulfrich pendulum effect, obtained by viewing a moving object with a filter over one eye, was examined with target stimuli in apparent, rather than continuous, motion. The filter-induced depth effect persisted until a certain degree of intermittency in the presentations of the target was reached, and then it broke...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Morgan MJ,Thompson P

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The separation of visual shape and surface information may be useful for understanding holistic face perception--that is, the perception of a face as a single unit (Jiang, Blanz, & Rossion, 2011, Visual Cognition, 19, 1003-1034). A widely used measure of holistic face perception is the composite face effect (CFE), in ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Retter TL,Rossion B

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research into the effects of viewpoint change on face recognition has typically dealt with rotations around the head's vertical axis (yaw). Another common, although less studied, source of viewpoint variation in faces is rotation around the head's horizontal pitch axis (pitch). In the current study we used bo...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Favelle SK,Palmisano S,Maloney RT

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents the results of some recent experiments in neuroscience and perceptual science that reveal the role of virtual reality in normal visual perception, and the use of television technology by the visual brain. This involves particularly the cholinergic system in the forebrain. This research throws new l...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Smythies J

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A brief history of quantitative assessments of interocular transfer (IOT) of the motion aftereffect (MAE) is presented. Recent research indicates that the MAE occurs as a consequence of adapting detectors for relative rather than retinal motion. When gratings above and below a stationary, fixated grating are moved in ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Wade NJ,Swanston MT,de Weert CM

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The shortest stimulus exposure time for which transparency can be seen was examined. In the first experiment, overlapping digits were presented for 120 ms and the luminance in the overlapping regions was varied. Subjects reported, in separate blocks of trials, either the apparent transparency of the digits or the iden...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Watanabe T,Cavanagh P

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the observer's motion can elicit perception of relative depth, it is less successful in doing so when competing pictorial information is available. However, the evidence for this may be affected by limited extents of motion and by equidistance tendencies. Results obtained when monocular observers judged the o...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Reinhardt-Rutland AH

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments are reported on the effect of feature masking on judgements of the sex and familiarity of faces. In experiment 1 the effect of masking the eyes, nose, or mouth of famous and nonfamous, male and female faces on response times in two tasks was investigated. In the first, recognition, task only masking of...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Roberts T,Bruce V

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00