Activity in visual area V4 correlates with surface perception.

abstract：:Are people biologically prepared for the rapid detection of threat posed by an angry facial expression, even when it is conveyed in the form of a schematic line drawing? Based on visual search times, the current literature would suggest that the answer is yes. But are there low-level explanations for this effect? Here...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Kennett MJ,Wallis G

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used biased random-dot dynamic test stimuli to measure the strength of the motion aftereffect (MAE) to evaluate the usefulness of this technique as a measure of motion adaptation strength. The stimuli consisted of noise dots whose individual directions were random and of signal dots moving in a unique direction. Al...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Castet E,Keeble DR,Verstraten FA

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accurate perception of another person's gaze direction underlies most social interactions and provides important information about his or her future intentions. As a first step to measuring gaze perception, most experiments determine the range of gaze directions that observers judge as being direct: the cone of di...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Mareschal I,Calder AJ,Dadds MR,Clifford CW

更新日期：2013-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of spatiotemporal interactions giving rise to classical receptive field properties has been well studied in animal models, but little is known about the development of putative nonclassical mechanisms in any species. Here we used visual evoked potentials to study the developmental status of spatiotempo...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Norcia AM,Pei F,Kohler PJ

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although luminance and color are thought to be processed independently at early stages of visual processing, there is evidence that they interact at later stages. For example, chromatic information has been shown to enhance or suppress depth from luminance depending on whether chromatic edges are aligned or orthogonal...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Clery S,Bloj M,Harris JM

更新日期：2013-04-18 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：:To reach for an object, one needs to know its egocentric distance (absolute depth). It remains an unresolved issue which signals are required by the brain to calculate this absolute depth information. We devised a geometric model of binocular 3D eye orientation and investigated the signals necessary to uniquely determ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Blohm G,Khan AZ,Ren L,Schreiber KM,Crawford JD

更新日期：2008-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The seminal study on perceptual learning of TDT (a texture discrimination task) has greatly shaped the field of perceptual learning up to the present time. However, here we demonstrate that this classic learning mostly involves temporal learning, rather than texture discrimination learning. Specifically, observers fir...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Wang R,Cong LJ,Yu C

更新日期：2013-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Crowding increases with eccentricity and is most readily observed in the periphery. During natural, active vision, however, central vision plays an important role. Measures of critical distance to estimate crowding are difficult in central vision, as these distances are small. Any overlap of flankers with the target m...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Ghahghaei S,Walker L

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introducing blur into the color components of a natural scene has very little effect on its percept, whereas blur introduced into the luminance component is very noticeable. Here we quantify the dominance of luminance information in blur detection and examine a number of potential causes. We show that the interaction ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Sharman RJ,McGraw PV,Peirce JW

更新日期：2013-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, researchers have begun to investigate how nonspatial perceptual information is extracted into visual working memory (VWM), focusing particularly on object-based encoding (OBE). That is, whenever even one feature-dimension is selected for entry into VWM, the others are also extracted automatically. While ther...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Shen M,Tang N,Wu F,Shui R,Gao Z

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When the visual system analyzes distributed patterns of sensory inputs, what features of those distributions does it use? It has been previously demonstrated that higher-order statistical moments of luminance distributions influence perception of static surfaces and textures. Here, we tested whether the brain also rep...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Waskom ML,Asfour J,Kiani R

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blur is an important attribute of human spatial vision, and sensitivity to blur has been the subject of considerable experimental research and theoretical modeling. Often, these models have invoked specialized concepts or mechanisms, such as intrinsic blur, multiple spatial frequency channels, or blur estimation units...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Watson AB,Ahumada AJ

更新日期：2011-09-19 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：:Our perceptions are fundamentally altered by our expectations, i.e., priors about the world. In previous statistical learning experiments (Chalk, Seitz, & Seriès, 2010), we investigated how such priors are formed by presenting subjects with white low contrast moving dots on a blank screen and using a bimodal distribut...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Gekas N,Chalk M,Seitz AR,Seriès P

更新日期：2013-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptation to first-order (luminance defined) motion produces not only a motion aftereffect but also a position aftereffect, in which a target pattern's perceived location is shifted opposite the direction of adaptation. These aftereffects can occur passively (when the direction of motion adaptation cannot be detected...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Harp TD,Bressler DW,Whitney D

更新日期：2007-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatosensory perception is hampered on the moving limb during a goal-directed movement. This somatosensory suppression is mostly attributed to a forward model that predicts future states of the system based on the established motor command. Here, we examined whether and how this suppression is modulated by the predic...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Voudouris D,Broda MD,Fiehler K

更新日期：2019-05-01 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：:Contrary to other tasks (free viewing, recognition, visual search), participants often fail to recognize repetition of trials in multiple object tracking (MOT). This study examines the intra- and interindividual variability of eye movements in repeated MOT trials along with the adherence of eye movements to the previo...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Lukavský J

更新日期：2013-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Two of the factors limiting progress in understanding the mechanisms of visual search are the difficulty of controlling and manipulating the retinal stimulus when the eyes are free to move and the lack of an ideal observer theory for fixation selection during search. Recently, we developed a method to precisely contro...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Geisler WS,Perry JS,Najemnik J

更新日期：2006-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The standard psychophysical model of our early visual system consists of a linear filter stage, followed by a nonlinearity and an internal noise source. If a rectification mechanism is introduced at the output of the linear filter stage, as has been suggested on some occasions, this model actually predicts that human ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Goris RL,Zaenen P,Wagemans J

更新日期：2008-07-10 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：:Contrast response functions (CRFs) from multifocal visual-evoked potential (mfVEP) and BOLD fMRI responses were obtained using the same stimuli to test the hypothesis of a linear relationship between the mfVEP and BOLD fMRI responses. Monocular mfVEP and BOLD fMRI responses were obtained using an 8 degrees in diameter...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Park JC,Zhang X,Ferrera J,Hirsch J,Hood DC

更新日期：2008-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In retinotopically organized areas of the macaque visual cortex, neurons have been found that shift their receptive fields before a saccade to their postsaccadic position. This saccadic remapping has been interpreted as a mechanism contributing to perceptual stability of space across eye movements. So far, there is on...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Wittenberg M,Bremmer F,Wachtler T

更新日期：2008-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent laboratory studies have found large, stable individual differences in the location people first fixate when identifying faces, ranging from the brows to the mouth. Importantly, this variation is strongly associated with differences in fixation-specific identification performance such that individuals' recogniti...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Peterson MF,Lin J,Zaun I,Kanwisher N

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent psychophysical studies have shown that perceived timings of events can be dissociated from their physical temporal relationship. In the flash-lag effect (FLE), a flash presented at the same spatiotemporal position as a continuously moving stimulus is perceived to lag behind the moving stimulus. In the present s...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Kanai R,Carlson TA,Verstraten FA,Walsh V

更新日期：2009-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:What controls gaze allocation during dynamic face perception? We monitored participants' eye movements while they watched videos featuring close-ups of pedestrians engaged in interviews. Contrary to previous findings using static displays, we observed no general preference to fixate eyes. Instead, gaze was dynamically...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Võ ML,Smith TJ,Mital PK,Henderson JM

更新日期：2012-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Strategic use of advanced information about search display properties can benefit covert attentional selection. However, little work has investigated this benefit on overt selection. The present study examined how cued information impacts oculomotor selection over time and the role played by individual differences in ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Weaver MD,Paoletti D,van Zoest W

更新日期：2014-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Whenever two or more sensory inputs are highly consistent in one or more dimension(s), observers will be more likely to perceive them as a single multisensory event rather than as separate unimodal events. For audiovisual speech, but not for other noncommunicative events, participants exhibit a "unity effect," whereby...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Vatakis A,Ghazanfar AA,Spence C

更新日期：2008-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Express saccades (ES) are the most reflexive saccadic eye movements, with very short reaction times of 70-110 ms. It is likely that ES have the shortest saccade reaction times (SRTs) possible given the known physiological and anatomical delays present in sensory and motor systems. Nevertheless, it has been demonstrate...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Edelman JA,Mieses AM,Konnova K,Shiu D

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00