Reference frame preferences in haptics differ for the blind and sighted in the horizontal but not in the vertical plane.

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：: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：:We present data in which instrument accommodation was measured while knowledge of object distance was varied. The accommodative feedback loop was 'semiopen'--an intermediate state between the closed-loop and open-loop conditions of previous experiments. The semiopen-loop situation mimicked the degraded-image condition...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Kotulak JC,Morse SE,Wiley RW

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments were performed to examine the suggestion that underlying memory mechanisms may be revealed in the form of the psychophysical function for duration. In experiment 1 a broad range of durations, with fine spacing at the lower end, was employed to bring out any transition in function that might reflect a c...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Waterworth JA

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aftereffects of sustained convergence are generally explained as the result of eye muscle potentiation (EMP). Three implications of this hypothesis for aftereffects in distance perception were tested: (i) According to the EMP hypothesis the aftereffects are based on oculomotor distance cues only. The addition of secon...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Heuer H,Lüschow U

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two psychophysical experiments are reported, one dealing with the visual perception of the head orientation of another person (the 'looker') and the other dealing with the perception of the looker's direction of eye gaze. The participant viewed the looker with different retinal eccentricities, ranging from foveal to f...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Loomis JM,Kelly JW,Pusch M,Bailenson JN,Beall AC

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：: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：:The Ternus display is a moving visual stimulus which elicits two very different percepts, according to the length of the interstimulus interval (ISI) between each frame of the motion sequence. These two percepts, referred to as element motion and group motion, have previously been analysed in terms of the operation of...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Scott-Samuel NE,Hess RF

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the influence of viewing angle on performance in recognising the identity of one's own person and familiar individuals such as friends or colleagues from walking patterns. Viewpoint-dependent recognition performance was tested in two groups of twelve persons who knew each other very well. Participants'...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Jokisch D,Daum I,Troje NF

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The travelling salesperson problem (TSP) provides a realistic and practical example of a visuo-spatial problem-solving task. In previous research, we have found that the quality of solutions produced by human participants for small TSPs compares well with solutions from a range of computer algorithms. We have proposed...

journal_title：Perception

authors： MacGregor JN,Ormerod TC,Chronicle EP

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Japanese male and female undergraduate students judged the gender of a variety of facial images. These images were combinations of the following facial parts: eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, and the face outline (cheek and chin). These parts were extracted from averaged facial images of Japanese males and females aged 18...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Yamaguchi MK,Hirukawa T,Kanazawa S

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motion is perceived whenever a subject is presented with an appropriate spatiotemporal visual pattern. Like many other visual tasks, motion perception involves both local and global processing, and thus might be subject to the well-known paradox that arises from the fact that local features and observations form the b...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Hermush Y,Yeshurun Y

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex differences were investigated in two experiments on visual persistence: the Ganzfeld and the afterimage. Males were found to hold visual sensation longer than females, particularly in the Ganzfeld where there was little overlap of scores. Variability of experience in the Ganzfeld was also greater for males and the...

journal_title：Perception

authors： McGuinness D,Lewis I

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Jastrow size illusion, two vertically stacked but offset stimuli of identical size are misperceived such that the bottom stimulus is overestimated relative to the top stimulus due to their spatial layout. In this study, we explored whether nonhuman primates perceive this geometric illusion in the same manner as...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Agrillo C,Beran MJ,Parrish AE

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has previously been shown that when a moving and a stationary display are superimposed, illusory self-rotation (circular vection) is induced only when the moving display appears as the background. Three experiments are reported on the extent to which illusory forward self-motion (forward vection) induced by a loomi...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Ohmi M,Howard IP

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When a shape defined by a set of dots plotted along its contour is presented in a sequence of frames within the boundaries of a slit, and in each frame only one dot (featureless frame) or two dots (feature frame) are displayed, a whole moving dotted shape is perceived. Masking techniques and psychophysical measures ha...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Casco C,Morgan M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined vection induced during physical or simulated head oscillation along either the horizontal or depth axis. In the first two experiments, during active conditions, subjects viewed radial-flow displays which simulated viewpoint oscillation that was either in-phase or out-of-phase with their own tracked head mo...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Ash A,Palmisano S,Kim J

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been claimed that an illusory figure is prevented from occurring when there is contrary evidence to occlusion, eg when the inducers are pictorial representations of 'complete' three-dimensional (3-D) objects. However, it was recently shown that illusory figures may also be induced by such pictorially 3-D induce...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Purghé F

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human visual system is sensitive to both first-order variations in luminance and second-order variations in local contrast and texture. Although there is some debate about the nature of second-order vision and its relationship to first-order processing, there is now a body of results showing that they are processe...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Schofield AJ

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When the dynamic visual noise of an untuned television set is viewed with image defocusing (positive lenses) and with a narrow vertical obstruction partially blocking the pupil of one eye, the video 'snow' seems to separate into two stable surfaces at different depths, divided by a vertical discontinuity. The main fea...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Enright JT

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:'Rotating snakes' is an illusory figure in which the 'snakes' are perceived to rotate. We report that when the image moves smoothly, the snakes do not appear to rotate, although the retinal images are continuously refreshed. Therefore, to produce the illusion, the image should remain stationary (without being refreshe...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Tomimatsu E,Ito H,Seno T,Sunaga S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the relationship between visual motion processing for perception and pursuit, we measured the pursuit eye-movement and perceptual responses to the same complex-motion stimuli. We show that humans can both perceive and pursue the motion of line-figure objects, even when partial occlusion makes the resulting ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Stone LS,Beutter BR,Lorenceau J

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：: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 presence of an additional external upright frame was studied in three experiments to separate the role of visuovestibular, global, and local mechanisms in the rod-and-frame illusion (RFI). In the first experiment, carried out in a dark room, the external frame surrounded a large tilted frame. Rod-setting errors to...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Spinelli D,Antonucci G,Daini R,Fanzon D,Zoccolotti P

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a growing interest in the question whether the phenomenon of subitising (fast and accurate detection of fewer than 4-5 stimuli presented simultaneously), widely thought to affect numerosity judgments in vision, can also affect the processing of tactile stimuli. In a recent study, in which multiple tactile sti...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Gallace A,Tan HZ,Spence C

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:To investigate the mental mechanism that estimates the duration of sounds, the subjective duration of a tone was measured. In the first experiment a portion of the target sound was replaced with another sound. In the second and third experiments another sound either started or ended in the middle of the target sound. ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Tsuzaki M,Kato H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Van Tuijl's neon color effect arises in the Ehrenstein figure if a colored cross is added such as to connect the black arms across the central gap. The effect consists of a circular veil of color in the illusory area and has the same hue as the inducing cross. The neon-like coloration is uniform, or when elicited by t...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Redies C,Spillman L

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00