Females, but not males, show greater pupillary response to direct- than deviated-gaze faces.

abstract：:If a pair of dots, diametrically opposed to each other, is flashed in perfect alignment with another pair of dots rotating about the visual fixation point, most observers perceive the rotating dots as being ahead of the flashing dots (flash-lag effect). This psychophysical effect was first interpreted as the result of...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Baldo MV,Kihara AH,Namba J,Klein SA

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New geometric analyses are presented of three impressive examples of the effects of location of the vantage point on virtual 3-D spaces conveyed by linear-perspective images. In the 'egocentric-road' effect, the perceived direction of the depicted road is always pointed towards the observer, for any position of the va...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Todorović D

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naito and Cole [1994, in Contributions to Mathematical Psychology: Psychometrics and Methodology Eds G H Fischer and D Laming (New York: Springer)] provide a configuration which they describe as the Gravity Lens illusion. In this configuration, four small dots are presented in proximity to four large disks, and one is...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Greene E

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spectacle of synchronous activity is both engaging and, for the social perceiver, informative. Judgments of the quality of social interactions covary with key characteristics of coordination dynamics (ie relative phase). Here we examined the converse relationship--are perceptions of synchrony shaped by social fact...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Lumsden J,Miles LK,Macrae CN

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Effects of sound and posture cues on veering from the straight-ahead were tested with young blind children in an unfamiliar space that lacked orienting cues. In a pre-test with a previously heard target sound, all subjects walked straight to the target. A recording device, which sampled the locomotor trajectories auto...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Millar S

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We show a cylindrical projection of the human head. This projection is ambiguous with respect to head pose. Viewing such a projection produces perceptual competition for a few discrete views. ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Kersten D,Troje NF,Bülthoff HH

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：:The following is based largely on sections of our two recent books: Frisby and Stone (2010, Seeing MIT Press), and Stone (2012, Vision and Brain MIT Press). Those books are aimed at student/ novice audiences, and so we have eliminated material of a wholly introductory nature for this special issue of Perception. Howev...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Frisby JP,Stone JV

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When a random-dot screen is used as a background for Ehrenstein figures, brightness enhancement is replaced by a change of grain and structure. Dots in the illusory area appear less densely packed and may be perceived as concentrically organized. When the screen is moved with respect to the Ehrenstein figures, the ill...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Spillmann L,Redies C

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By varying target size, speed, and extent of visible motion we examined the timing accuracy in motion extrapolation. Small or large targets (0.2 or 0.8 deg) moved at either 2.5, 5, or 10 deg s(-1) across a horizontal path (2.5 or 10 deg) and then vanished behind an occluder. Observers responded when they judged that t...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Sokolov A,Pavlova M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Context sensitivity of size perception has previously been used to study individual differences related to the distinction between local, analytic, or field-independent and global, holistic, or field-dependent perceptual styles. For example, it has been used in several recent studies of autistic spectrum disorders, wh...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Phillips WA,Chapman KL,Berry PD

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cricket or baseball fielder can run so as to arrive at just the right place at just the right time to catch a ball. It is shown that if the fielder runs so that d2(tan alpha)/dt2 = 0, where alpha is the angle of elevation of gaze from fielder to ball, then the ball will generally be intercepted before it hits the gr...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Dienes Z,McLeod P

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two experiments in which we used animated averaged faces to examine infants' ability to perceive and discriminate facial motion. The faces were generated by using the motion recorded from the faces of volunteers while they spoke. We tested infants aged 4-8 months to assess their ability to discriminate facia...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Spencer J,O'Brien J,Johnston A,Hill H

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embodied cognition and perceptual symbol theories assume that higher cognition interacts with and is grounded in perception and action. Recent experiments have shown that language processing interacts with perceptual processing in various ways, indicating that linguistic representations have a strong perceptual charac...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Pelekanos V,Moutoussis K

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：: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：:The topic of amodal completion has often been investigated by using partly occluded shapes that are regular. In research that has typically been done with displays such as these regular shapes, it has been shown that global aspects of a shape can determine completion. To see how robust these global influences in the c...

journal_title：Perception

authors： de Wit TC,van Lier RJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:In the present study, participants searched for a conjunction of color and orientation either from the same part of an object (same-part display), or from different parts of an object (different-part display). While no difference was found between the two display conditions in single feature searches, conjunction sear...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Xu Y

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The model of inhibitory interaction between orientation detectors was examined by prolonged presentation of grating patterns (which was expected to induce orientation-selective adaptation) before measurement of the Zöllner illusion. Adaptation effects were measured under conditions which excluded intrusion by the tilt...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Morikawa K

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Saturn illusion is a stereokinetic effect that occurs when a flat pattern composed of a full ellipse with two symmetrical semirings is rotated slowly in the frontoparallel plane. Subjects report seeing an egg-shaped object inserted into a circular ring, and the two objects move solidly into 3-D space as a single r...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Bressan P,Vallortigara G

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown in several studies that the selection of letters or numerals from an array can occur efficiently if criteria such as location, colour, shape, or size are used. It is also known that there are at least two components of spatial attention, the transient exogenous and the sustained endogenous. An intere...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Laarni J,Häkkinen J

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theories purporting to explain the cognitive processes underlying imitation and its taxonomic distribution have proliferated in recent years but a common assumption is that imitators must adopt a model's mental or visual perspective. Data on thirty-six adult subjects were used to test the hypothesis that imitative lea...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Sambrook TD

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：: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：:In recent years a growing interest has emerged in numerosity perception in touch. Most of the studies on tactile numerosity perception have investigated its spatial aspect by testing the ability to count the number of items presented simultaneously. On the other hand, only a small number of studies have examined its t...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Iida N,Kuroki S,Watanabe J

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two aspects of neon color spreading, local color spreading (neon flank) and illusory contour, were investigated by dichoptic viewing. Neon flank was not observed under appropriate dichoptic stimulation, suggesting that input to the process for local color spreading is based on monocular configuration. However, illusor...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Takeichi H,Shimojo S,Watanabe T

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally believed that there is an absolute disparity limit for binocular fusion; objects with disparities within this limit, known as Panum's fusional area, will appear fused and single, while objects with disparities outside the limit appear double. It is demonstrated, however, that the disparity gradient, ra...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Burt P,Julesz B

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:First, we criticize the validity of the principle of lateral inhibition. Second, on the basis of illusory phenomena and stabilized retinal images, we point out that the retina does not code the absolute luminance; the retina forwards a relative luminance sketch towards higher levels of the visual system. However, at t...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Geier J,Hudák M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00