Through the looking glass: how the relationship between an object and its reflection affects the perception of distance and size.

abstract：:An optical-geometrical illusion, described by Delboeuf and not familiar to specialists, is investigated. The results of two experiments show that the divergence between a bar filled with parallel slanting lines and a line drawn above it is clearly related to this angle of the lines which fill the bar. The illusion is ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Vicario GB,Vidotto G,Zambianchi E

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the relative velocities of moving objects on their apparent relative size and depth were investigated with the aid of square patterns generated on a CRT display by a microcomputer. The observer matched the apparent sizes of squares, arranged in two or more rows that moved with different velocities, and ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Kaneko H,Uchikawa K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scintillating grid illusion refers to the illusory perception of black spots on luminance patches at the intersections of a grey grid on a black background. We examined how spatial parameters of luminance patches modulated the strength of the illusion. In experiment 1, we controlled the size and shape of the lumin...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Qian K,Yamada Y,Kawabe T,Miura K

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:The detectability of pairs of flashed lines was investigated as a joint function of their separation in both space and time. In contrast to previous studies of contrast interactions as a function of either spatial or temporal separation alone, the predominant interaction is not lateral inhibition, but a delayed facili...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Smith RA,Cass P

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：:In an earlier paper, Caelli and Finlay demonstrated that the perception of apparent motion was contingent on critical phase relationships between inducing sources, and their spatio-temporal frequency ranges. In their original stimulus red-green centre-surround sources were used and phase-specific inhibition was found ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Finlay D,Caelli T

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well-known that people recognize faces of their own race more accurately than faces of other races-a phenomenon often referred to as the 'other-race effect'. Using brief presentations of faces, we show a similar effect for the task of discriminating the sex of a face. Specifically, Caucasian observers discrimina...

journal_title：Perception

authors： O'Toole AJ,Peterson J,Deffenbacher KA

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Is the extraction of a visually derived semantic code from faces (ethnicity) affected by face identity (familiarity) or not? The traditional view considers that this operation is made independently of face identity, and in parallel with the recognition of identity. However, some recent studies cast doubt on this paral...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Bruyer R,Leclere S,Quinet P

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the massive amount of incoming visual information, perception is fundamentally selective. We are aware of only a small subset of our visual input at any given moment, and a great deal of activity can occur right in front of our eyes without reaching awareness. While previous work has shown that even salient...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Mitroff SR,Scholl BJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory information is multimodal; through audiovisual interaction, task-irrelevant auditory stimuli tend to speed response times and increase visual perception accuracy. However, mechanisms underlying these performance enhancements have remained unclear. We hypothesize that task-irrelevant auditory stimuli might prov...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Li Q,Yang H,Sun F,Wu J

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：:A new facial composites technique is demonstrated, in which photographs of the top and bottom halves of different familiar faces fuse to form unfamiliar faces when aligned with each other. The perception of a novel configuration in such composite stimuli is sufficiently convincing to interfere with identification of t...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Young AW,Hellawell D,Hay DC

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:To what extent can individuals accurately estimate the angle between two surfaces through touch alone, and how does tactile judgment compare to visual judgment? Subjects' ability to estimate angle size for a variety of haptic and visual stimuli was examined in a series of nine experiments. Triangular wooden blocks and...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Lakatos S,Marks LE

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three experiments are reported in which it is tested whether the Gestalt effect of configural orientation on shape perception operates on two-dimensional (2-D) or three-dimensional (3-D) representations of space. It is known that gravitationally defined squares and diamonds take longer to discriminate in diagonal arra...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Palmer S,Simone E,Kube P

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：: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：: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：:In the present study, we examined ascription of bizarreness to faces in a ratings task by children aged 8-10 and 11-13 years, and by adults. Configural information was manipulated subtly (a single eye was inverted) or in a more salient manner (eye and mouth were inverted). By utilizing brief presentations we restricte...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Anes MD,Short LA

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditions for perceptual modal completion are investigated using a stimulation pattern consisting of a figure moving behind a black opaque strip. This configuration leads, depending on conditions, either to the amodal Michotte tunnel effect, or to modal completion, ie the apparent transparency phenomenon. Four experi...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Hambrouck M,Thinès G,Michiels M

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In three experiments, we explored how pigeons use edges, corresponding to orientation and depth discontinuities, in visual recognition tasks. In experiment 1, we compared the pigeon's ability to recognize line drawings of four different geons when trained with shaded images. The birds were trained with either a single...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Peissig JJ,Young ME,Wasserman EA,Biederman I

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual acuity for the detection of gratings at four orientations was measured for groups of ten boys and ten girls aged five to seven years, from the following four populations: Scots in Glasgow, Pakistanis in Glasgow, Gaels in Stornoway (Outer Hebrides) and East Anglians in Littleport (Cambridgeshire fenlands). The G...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Ross HE,Woodhouse JM

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between expectation-induced hallucination proneness and self-confidence in performance was studied in a visual perception task. Participants were prompted either to recognize briefly shown faces as male or female or to rate the subjective vividness of a square surrounding the face. Importantly, in a f...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Vetik S,Tulver K,Lints D,Bachmann T

更新日期：2020-10-01 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

abstract：:When a narrow uniform gap was surrounded by a moving grating, the gap appeared as a grating in the opposite phase to that of the surround, moving in the same direction with the same speed. Contrast thresholds for moving test-gratings placed in the region of the uniform gap were found to be elevated after prolonged vie...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Zaidi Q,Sachtler WL

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a significant delay between the time when light hits the retina and the time of the consequent percept. It has been hypothesized that the visual system attempts to correct for this latency by generating a percept representative of the way the world probably is at the time the percept is elicited, rather than ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Changizi MA,Widders DM

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Faces are difficult to recognise when presented upside down. This effect of face inversion was effectively demonstrated with the 'Thatcher illusion' by Thompson (1980 Perception 9 483-484). It has been tacitly assumed that this effect is due to inversion relative to retinal coordinates. Here we tested whether it is du...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Lobmaier JS,Mast FW

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Why attention lapses during prolonged tasks is debated, specifically whether errors are a consequence of under-arousal or exerted effort. To explore this, we investigated whether increased impulsivity is associated with effortful processing by modifying the demand of a task by presenting it at a quiet intensity. Here,...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Roebuck H,Guo K,Bourke P

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:People are remarkably accurate (approaching ceiling) at deciding whether faces are male or female, even when cues from hair style, makeup, and facial hair are minimised. Experiments designed to explore the perceptual basis of our ability to categorise the sex of faces are reported. Subjects were considerably less accu...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Bruce V,Burton AM,Hanna E,Healey P,Mason O,Coombes A,Fright R,Linney A

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00