Temporal characteristics of visibility in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and humans (Homo sapiens) assessed by a visual-masking paradigm.

abstract：:In four studies children were asked to read aloud a passage of randomly ordered common words with and without a coloured sheet of plastic (overlay) placed upon the page. The children's rate of reading increased with the overlay, for some children more than for others. The children were also asked to undertake a test o...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Wilkins A,Lewis E

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is argued that the experiment carried out by Bross et al is not a valid test of assimilation theory because they confuse a graphic representation of a constant with the construct itself and assume that changing the former will alter the latter. ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Pressey AW

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies have shown that visual stimuli can bias the perceived location of auditory stimuli. Here, we sought to determine if a visual stimulus can also bias the perceived location of multiple internal auditory stimuli. Fifty subjects were presented with a train of eight binaural click-pairs over headphones whi...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Dellorso S,Schirillo J

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Half-occlusions and illusory contours have recently been used to show that depth can be perceived in the absence of binocular correspondence and that there is more to stereopsis than solving the correspondence problem. In the present study we show a new way for depth to be assigned in the absence of binocular correspo...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Bacon BA,Mamassian P

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observers appear to perceive the paths of abstract centers of point-light configurations in making judgments about movement. For configurations on rolling wheels a metric was derived that described the relative vertical motion of this point. It was hypothesized that the smaller the metric the more the stimulus should ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Proffitt DR,Cutting JE

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies suggest that attention is necessary for perceptual alternations in binocular rivalry. It has been shown that attention plays a role in not only accelerating but also even enabling perceptual fluctuation in ongoing phase of binocular rivalry. In this study, we tested whether attention also plays a role i...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Jung Y,Kang MS,Chong SC

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：:In a series of three experiments, observers judged the perceived relative depths of small probe dots, which could be presented in empty space or attached to a smoothly curved surface. Discriminations of ordinal depth were found to be more precise than discriminations of depth intervals. The amount of separation in the...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Norman JF,Todd JT

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:Following Karwoski, Odbert, and Osgood (1942, Journal of General Psychology 26 199-222), it is proposed that cross-sensory correspondences can arise from extensive, bi-directional cross-activation between dimensions of connotative meaning. If this account is correct, the same set of cross-sensory correspondences (eg b...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Walker L,Walker P,Francis B

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we demonstrate the existence of simultaneous lightness contrast in displays in which the target patches are both more luminant than their surrounds. These effects are not predicted by theories of lightness that assume that the highest luminance in a scene is perceived as white, and anchors all the other ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Bressan P,Actis-Grosso R

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:An object flashed briefly in a given location, the moment another moving object arrives in the same location, is perceived by observers as lagging behind the moving object (flash-lag effect). Does the flash-lag effect occur if the retinal image of the moving object is rendered stationary by smooth pursuit of the movin...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Nijhawan R

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theory is presented of how a driver might visually control his braking. A mathematical analysis of the changing optic array at the driver's eye indicates that the simplest type of visual information, which would be sufficient for controlling braking and would also be likely to be easily picked up by the driver, is i...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Lee DN

更新日期：1976-01-01 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：:The mirror puzzle related to the perception of mirror images as left-right reversed can be more fully understood by considering an extended problem that includes also the perception of mirror images that are not left-right reversed. The purpose of the present study is to clarify the physical aspect of this extended pr...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Yoshimura H,Tabata T

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of theoretical neural networks to preprocessed images was investigated with the aim of developing a computational recognition system. The neural networks were trained by means of a back-propagation algorithm, to respond selectively to computer-generated bars and edges. The receptive fields of the train...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Moorhead IR,Haig ND,Clement RA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How are works of art that present scenes that match potential expectations processed in the brain, in contrast to such scenes that can never occur in real life because they would violate physical laws? Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we investigated the processing of surrealistic and naturalistic images i...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Silveira S,Graupmann V,Frey D,Blautzik J,Meindl T,Reiser M,Chen C,Wang Y,Bao Y,PöppeI E,Gutyrchik E

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments are reported with young Down's syndrome and normal children matched for mental age, sex, and social class. In one, Down's syndrome children performed at chance level on two tactual--visual cross-modal tasks, and only the oldest succeeded with one of two visual--visual within-modal tasks. The modal chil...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Lewis VA,Bryant PE

更新日期：1982-01-01 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：:Several recent studies have shown that the performance of a skill that involves acting on a goal object can influence one's judgment of the size of that object. The present study investigated this effect in an aviation context. Novice pilots were asked to perform a series of visual approach and landing manoeuvres in a...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Gray R,Navia JA,Allsop J

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When a large optic-flow pattern is viewed, induced self-motion perception (vection) can result even for observers who are stationary relative to Earth. Vection is common in optokinetic drums, large-screen cinemas, vehicle simulators, and other virtual environments. However, not all optic-flow patterns are equally effe...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Bubka A,Bonato F

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:Individual speechreading abilities have been linked with a range of cognitive and language-processing factors. The role of specifically visual abilities in relation to the processing of visible speech is less studied. Here we report that the detection of coherent visible motion in random-dot kinematogram displays is r...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Mohammed T,Campbell R,MacSweeney M,Milne E,Hansen P,Coleman M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of lines pointing towards a central region induces an illusory brightness effect that is systematically related to the angle formed by the lines and the contour of the illusory brightness. As the lines veer to become tangents the illusory brightness decreases. ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Kennedy JM

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:One of the open questions within the study of texture discrimination is whether the underlying neural mechanisms are located within the two monocular pathways, or whether they are located at more central areas that process binocular information. This question is considered here in psychophysical experiments of texture...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Pérez-Martínez D

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments examined the effect of object substitution masking (OSM) on the perceptual errors in reporting the orientation of a target. In Experiment 1, a four-dot trailing mask was compared with a simultaneous-noise mask. In Experiment 2, the four-dot and noise masks were factorially varied. Responses were modell...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Pilling M,Guest D,Andrews M

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When a rapid eye movement (saccade) is made across material displayed on cathode ray tube monitors with short-persistence phosphors, various perceptual phenomena occur. The phenomena do not occur when the monitor has a long-persistence phosphor. These phenomena were observed for certain spatial arrays, their possible ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Neary C,Wilkins AJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00