Some observations on contrast detection in noise.

abstract：:Research in the Visual Development Unit on "dorsal stream vulnerability' (DSV) arose from research in two somewhat different areas. In the first, using cortical milestones for local and global processing from our neurobiological model, we identified cerebral visual impairment in infants in the first year of life. In t...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Atkinson J

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual prostheses for the restoration of functional vision are currently under development. To guide prosthesis research and allow for an accurate prognosis of functional gain, simulating the experience of a retinal prosthesis in healthy individuals is desirable. Current simulation paradigms lack crucial aspects of th...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： van Rheede JJ,Kennard C,Hicks SL

更新日期：2010-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the role of native astigmatism and ocular aberrations on best-focus setting and its shift upon induction of astigmatism in 42 subjects (emmetropes, myopes, hyperopes, with-the-rule [WTR] and against-the-rule [ATR] myopic astigmats). Stimuli were presented in a custom-developed adaptive optics simulator, all...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Marcos S,Velasco-Ocana M,Dorronsoro C,Sawides L,Hernandez M,Marin G

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural scenes contain both color and luminance variations at different sizes and orientations that are sometimes spatially overlaid and sometimes not. Here, we explore visual interactions between overlaid color and luminance contrast that are both suprathreshold and highly visible. We used a color-luminance plaid in ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Kim YJ,Mullen KT

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of target typicality in a categorical visual search task was investigated by cueing observers with a target name, followed by a five-item target present/absent search array in which the target images were rated in a pretest to be high, medium, or low in typicality with respect to the basic-level target cue. C...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Maxfield JT,Stalder WD,Zelinsky GJ

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observers performed three between- and two within-category perceptual decisions with hybrid stimuli comprising low and high spatial frequency (SF) images. We manipulated (a) attention to, and (b) congruency of information in the two SF bands. Processing difficulty of the different SF bands varied across different cate...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Rotshtein P,Schofield A,Funes MJ,Humphreys GW

更新日期：2010-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccadic adaptation is an oculomotor learning process that maintains the accuracy of eye movements to ensure effective perception of the environment. Although saccadic adaptation is commonly considered an automatic and low-level motor calibration in the cerebellum, we recently found that strength of adaptation is infl...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Meermeier A,Gremmler S,Richert K,Eckermann T,Lappe M

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown independent attentional selection of targets in the left and right visual hemifields during attentional tracking (Alvarez & Cavanagh, 2005) but not during a visual search (Luck, Hillyard, Mangun, & Gazzaniga, 1989). Here we tested whether multifocal spatial attention is the critical process...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Alvarez GA,Gill J,Cavanagh P

更新日期：2012-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Perceiving object motion during self-movement is an essential ability of humans. Previous studies have reported that the visual system can use both visual information (such as optic flow) and non-visual information (such as vestibular, somatosensory, and proprioceptive information) to identify and globally subtract th...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Xie M,Niehorster DC,Lappe M,Li L

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been considerable controversy regarding whether children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and typically developing children (TD) show different eye movement patterns when processing faces. We investigated ASD and age- and IQ-matched TD children's scanning of faces using a novel multi-method approach. We f...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Yi L,Fan Y,Quinn PC,Feng C,Huang D,Li J,Mao G,Lee K

更新日期：2013-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Amblyopia results in a severe loss of positional information and in the ability to accurately enumerate objects (V. Sharma, D. M. Levi, & S. A. Klein, 2000). In this study, we asked whether amblyopia also disrupts the ability to track a near-threshold change in the trajectory of a single target amongst multiple simila...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Levi DM,Tripathy SP

更新日期：2006-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The perception of a bistable stimulus as one or the other interpretation can be biased by prior presentations of that stimulus. Such learning effects have been found to be long lasting even after small amounts of training. The effectiveness of training may be influenced by preexposure to the ambiguous stimulus. Here w...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： van Dam LC,Ernst MO

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that moving visual stimuli are perceived to last longer than stationary stimuli with the same physical duration (Kanai, Paffen, Hogendoorn, & Verstraten, 2006), and that motor actions (Tomassini & Morrone, 2016) and eye movements (Morrone, Ross, & Burr, 2005) can alter perceived duration. In the present wo...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Verde LL,Alais D,Burr DC,Morrone MC,MacDougall H,Verstraten FAJ

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of signal and noise on contrast discrimination are difficult to separate because of a singularity in the signal-detection-theory model of two-alternative forced-choice contrast discrimination (Katkov, Tsodyks, & Sagi, 2006). In this article, we show that it is possible to eliminate the singularity by combi...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Ding J,Levi DM

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain can use multiple reference frames to code line orientation, including head-, object-, and gravity-centered references. If these frames change orientation, their representations must be updated to keep register with actual line orientation. We tested this internal updating during head rotation in roll, exploi...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Niehof N,Tramper JJ,Doeller CF,Medendorp WP

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Do moving observers code attended locations relative to the external world or relative to themselves? To address this question we asked participants to conduct visual search on a tabletop. The search target was more likely to occur in some locations than others. Participants walked to different sides of the table from...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Jiang YV,Swallow KM,Capistrano CG

更新日期：2013-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Photographs and line drawings of natural scenes are easily classified even when the image is only briefly visible to the observer. Contour junctions and points of high curvature have been shown to be important for perceptual organization (Attneave, 1954; Biederman, 1987) and have been proposed to be influential in rap...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Wilder J,Dickinson S,Jepson A,Walther DB

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamics of attentional deployment before saccade execution was studied with a dual-task paradigm. Observers made a horizontal saccade whose direction was indicated by a symbolic precue and had to discriminate the orientation of a Gabor patch displayed at different delays after the precue (but before saccade onset...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Castet E,Jeanjean S,Montagnini A,Laugier D,Masson GS

更新日期：2006-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:After adapting to a certain motion direction, our perception of a similar direction will be repelled away from the adapting direction, a phenomenon known as the direction aftereffect (DAE). As the motion system consists of local and global processing stages, it remains unclear how the adaptation of the two stages cont...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Lee ALF

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the ability of emmetropic and myopic observers to detect and discriminate blur across the retina under monocular or binocular viewing conditions. We recruited 39 young (23-30 years) healthy adults (n = 19 myopes) with best-corrected visual acuity 0.0 LogMAR (20/20) or better in each eye and no binocular o...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Maiello G,Walker L,Bex PJ,Vera-Diaz FA

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In visual crowding, identification of a peripheral object is impaired by nearby objects. Recent studies have demonstrated that crowding is not limited only to interaction between low-level features or parts, as presumed by most models of crowding, but can also occur between high-level, configural representations of ob...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Pirkner Y,Kimchi R

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fovea is the retinal location responsible for our most acute vision. There are several methods used to localize the fovea, but the fovea is not always easily identifiable. Landmarks used to determine the foveal location are variable in normal subjects and localization becomes even more difficult in instances of re...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： VanNasdale DA,Elsner AE,Weber A,Miura M,Haggerty BP

更新日期：2009-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:While many aspects of human vision at low light levels have been studied in great detail, motion perception has rarely been investigated so far. Here we address differential effects of light level on the perception of coherent motion, heading from radial flow, and biological motion. We determined detection thresholds ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Billino J,Bremmer F,Gegenfurtner KR

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual motion serves as a cue for high-level percepts. The present study reports novel modulation of animacy perception through synchronous motion. A target dot moving along a random trajectory was presented. The trajectory was generated based on a variant of 1/f noise; hence, the dot could be perceived as animate. Pa...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Takahashi K,Watanabe K

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human brains are finite, and thus have bounded capacity. An efficient strategy for a capacity-limited agent is to continuously adapt by dynamically reallocating capacity in a task-dependent manner. Here we study this strategy in the context of visual working memory (VWM). People use their VWM stores to remember visual...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Bates CJ,Lerch RA,Sims CR,Jacobs RA

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scene viewing is used to study attentional selection in complex but still controlled environments. One of the main observations on eye movements during scene viewing is the inhomogeneous distribution of fixation locations: While some parts of an image are fixated by almost all observers and are inspected repeatedly by...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Trukenbrod HA,Barthelmé S,Wichmann FA,Engbert R

更新日期：2019-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatic vision starts at the retinal photoreceptors but photoreceptors are themselves color-blind, responding only to their effective quantal catch and not to the wavelength of the caught photon per se. Mitchell and Rushton (1971) termed this phenomenon the univariance concept, and it is widely used in designing sil...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Kamar S,Howlett MHC,Kamermans M

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research has established the role of objects' semantic properties in the planning of motor actions with respect to these objects. It has been shown that visual numerical magnitude affects visuomotor control in a similar direction to the effect of physical size: The larger the numerical value, the larger the gri...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Namdar G,Ganel T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early visual processing is surprisingly flexible even in the adult brain. This flexibility involves both long-term structural plasticity and online adaptations conveyed by top-down feedback. Although this view is supported by rich evidence from both human behavioral studies and invasive electrophysiology in nonhuman m...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Herde L,Uhl J,Rauss K

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Human observers are able to estimate various ego-motion parameters from optic flow, including rotation, translational heading, time-to-collision (TTC), time-to-passage (TTP), etc. The perception of linear ego-acceleration or deceleration, i.e., changes of translational velocity, is less well understood. While time-to-...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Festl F,Recktenwald F,Yuan C,Mallot HA

更新日期：2012-07-20 00:00:00