Is light in pictures presumed to come from the left side?

abstract：:We examined the influence of spatial factors in temporal processing. Participants categorised as short or long empty intervals marked by two brief flashes delivered from locations differing in height and depth (experiment 1), or from two of three locations on a vertical plane (experiment 2). The perceived duration of ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Roussel ME,Grondin S,Killeen P

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:From the first works of Buswell, Yarbus, and Noton and Stark, the scan path for viewing complex images has been considered as a possible key to objective estimation of cognitive processes and their dynamics. However, evidences both pro and con were revealed in the modern research. In this article, the results supporti...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Samarin A,Koltunova T,Osinov V,Shaposhnikov D,Podladchikova L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accuracy and consistency of absolute pitch (AP) judgments have been measured on three subjects in two longitudinal studies separated by twenty years. The drifts and cyclical variations observed in the earlier study still persisted, and an investigation of two other subjects, one of whom was first studied forty yea...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Wynn VT

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In their seminal study Diamond and Carey (1986, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 115 107-117) found a larger inversion effect for dog pictures in dog experts than novices, supporting a role of visual expertise in the observation of particularly large inversion effects for faces. However, subsequent studies ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Rossion B,Curran T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The generic-view principle (GVP) states that given a 2-D image the visual system interprets it as a generic view of a 3-D scene when possible. The GVP was applied to 3-D-motion perception to show how the visual system decomposes retinal image motion into three components of 3-D motion: stretch/shrinkage, rotation, and...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Kitazaki M,Shimojo S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The visual environment is distorted with respect to the physical environment. Luneburg [1947, Mathematical Analysis of Binocular Vision (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press)] assumed that visual space could be described by a Riemannian space of constant curvature. Such a space is described by a metric which defi...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Cuijpers RH,Kappers AM,Koenderink JJ

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of visual movement on saccadic eye movement have been examined. In a classic apparent-movement demonstration with two successively exposed line-segment targets the quality of the movement is dependent on the relative orientation of the line segments. If saccadic eye movements are elicited between the targe...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Findlay JM,Zanuttini L

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding software engineers' behaviour plays a vital role in the software development industry. It also provides helpful guidelines for teaching and learning. In this article, we conduct a study of the extrafoveal vision and its role in information processing. This is a new perspective on source code comprehensio...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Orlov PA,Bednarik R

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：:An experiment is described in which photographs of everyday objects were masked by frequency-filtered random visual noise. The masking functions obtained were of the same type as those obtained by masking letters and words with random noise or a pattern mask. That is, the high-frequency mask produced a type A function...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Forster PM

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surfaces possessing steep variations in depth present severe difficulties for orientationally tuned filter models of stereopsis. These difficulties are discussed in connection with a random-dot stereogram depicting a surface with steep horizontal corrugations. As expected on theoretical grounds, we find that a vertica...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Mayhew JE,Frisby JP

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition of unfamiliar faces is susceptible to image differences caused by angular sizes subtended from the face to the camera. Research on perception of cubes suggests that apparent distortions of a shape due to large camera angle are correctable by placing the observer at the centre of projection, especially when...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Liu CH,Ward J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the spectral content of wide-band auditory stimuli have been repeatedly implicated as a possible cue to the distance of a sound source. Few of the previous studies of this factor, however, have considered whether the cue provided by spectral content serves as an absolute or a relative cue. That is, can diff...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Little AD,Mershon DH,Cox PH

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multisensory integration is a powerful mechanism for maximizing sensitivity to sensory events. We examined its effects on auditory localization in healthy human subjects. The specific objective was to test whether the relative intensity and location of a seemingly irrelevant visual stimulus would influence auditory lo...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Bolognini N,Leo F,Passamonti C,Stein BE,Làdavas E

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subjects were presented with projections of either rectangular or elliptic forms which appeared either on their own or upon the following figures: (a) a face of a portrayed cube, (b) a parallelogram identical with (a), and (c) a rectangle of equal width and area to (a). Four different angles of projection were used fo...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Kaess DW,Deregowski JB

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although depth is experienced with targets at large disparities when they are seen as double or diplopic, whether that depth is as direct as with fused targets has been a matter of considerable uncertainty. Researchers have often claimed that judgments of the depth of diplopic targets during simple near/far tasks rely...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Ziegler LR,Hess RF

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract. Observers can recover motion with respect to the head during an eye movement by comparing signals encoding retinal motion and the velocity of pursuit. Evidently there is a mismatch between these signals because perceived head-centred motion is not always veridical. One example is the Filehne illusion, in whi...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Freeman TC,Sumnall JH

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Can people with different forms of low vision use motion parallax to improve depth judgments? We used a staircase method to compare depth thresholds using motion parallax and static viewing. We tested eighteen normal-vision subjects with a range of simulated deficits in acuity, contrast sensitivity, and simulated peri...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Jobling JT,Mansfield JS,Legge GE,Menge MR

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Which weighs more--a pound of lead or a pound of feathers?" The seemingly naive answer to the familiar riddle is the pound of lead. The correct answer, of course, is that they weigh the same amount. We investigated whether the naive answer to the riddle might have a basis in perception. When blindfolded participants ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Wagman JB,Zimmerman C,Sorric C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bodily illusions differently affect body representations underlying perception and action. We investigated whether this task dependence reflects two distinct dimensions of embodiment: the sense of agency and the sense of the body as a coherent whole. In experiment 1 the sense of agency was manipulated by comparing act...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Kammers MP,Longo MR,Tsakiris M,Dijkerman HC,Haggard P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans understand mechanical events to involve physical bodies interacting by contact, but intentional events involve agents that can also interact at a distance. We investigated infant sensitivity to causality in a simple event in which one agent appears to react to another without contact. Infants 9 months old were ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Schlottmann A,Surian L

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the interactions between matching identity and expressions of unfamiliar faces. In experiment 1, participants matched expressions in frontal and in oblique views, while we manipulated facial identity. In experiment 2, participants matched identity in frontal and in oblique views, while facial expressio...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Levy Y,Bentin S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention is unequally distributed across the visual field. Due to greater right than left hemisphere activation for visuospatial attention, people attend slightly more to the left than the right side. As a result, people voluntarily remember visual stimuli better when it first appears in the left than the right visua...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Moeck EK,Thomas NA,Takarangi MKT

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Luminance edges in the environment can be due to regions that differ in reflectance or in illumination. In three experiments, we varied the spatial organization of 10 achromatic (simulated) surfaces so that some arrangements were consistent with an ecologically valid and parsimonious interpretation of 5 surfaces under...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Schirillo JA,Shevell SK

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Through about 130 years of the history of experimental aesthetics, preferences of figures have been summarized in representative values such as the golden ratio. Researches especially in the golden-section hypothesis overshadowed the basic and profound problem of how people's individual preference would be decided. In...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Ohta H

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：:It is purported that the local perceptual style characteristic of those with autism results in them reproducing line drawings in a more localised manner than comparison individuals. Here we report an exception to this: the drawing strategies of those with autism were more global. When reproducing line drawings depicti...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Sheppard E,Ropar D,Mitchell P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental challenge in face recognition lies in determining which facial characteristics are important in the identification of faces. Several studies have indicated the significance of certain facial features in this regard, particularly internal ones such as the eyes and mouth. Surprisingly, however, one rather ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Sadr J,Jarudi I,Sinha P

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial arrangement is known to influence enumeration times in vision. In haptic enumeration, it has been shown that dividing the total number of items over the two hands can speed up enumeration. Here we investigated how spatial arrangement of items and non-items presented to the individual fingers impacts enumeratio...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Overvliet KE,Plaisier MA

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00