Modelling contrast discrimination data suggest both the pedestal effect and stochastic resonance to be caused by the same mechanism.

abstract：:Human faces look more similar to each other when they are presented upside down, leading to an increase in error rate and response time during individual face discrimination tasks. This face inversion effect (FIE) is one of the most robust findings in the face processing literature. Recent neuroimaging studies using a...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Jacques C,d'Arripe O,Rossion B

更新日期：2007-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the current status and historical trends of gender representation within a research field is an important component of fostering a diverse and inclusive scientific community. Here, we report on the gender representation of a large sample of the vision science research community--the attendees of the Annu...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Cooper EA,Radonjic A

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a computational-observer model of the human spatial contrast-sensitivity function based on the Image Systems Engineering Toolbox for Biology (ISETBio) simulation framework. We demonstrate that ISETBio-derived contrast-sensitivity functions agree well with ones derived using traditional ideal-observer approa...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Cottaris NP,Jiang H,Ding X,Wandell BA,Brainard DH

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of low-contrast Gabor patches (GPs) is improved when flanked by collinear GPs, whereas suppression is observed for high-contrast GPs. The facilitation resembles the principles of Gestalt theory of perceptual organization. We propose a model for contour integration in the context of noise that incorporates a ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Sterkin A,Sterkin A,Polat U

更新日期：2008-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the perception of three-dimensional plane orientation--focusing on the perception of tilt--from optic flow generated by the observer's active movement around a simulated stationary object, and compared the performance to that of an immobile observer receiving a replay of the same optic flow. We found t...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： van Boxtel JJ,Wexler M,Droulez J

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frequent target stimuli are detected more rapidly than infrequent ones. Here, we examined whether the frequency effect reflected durable attentional biases toward frequent target features, and whether the effect was confined to featural properties that defined the target. Participants searched for two specific target ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Sha LZ,Remington RW,Jiang YV

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A range of visual illusions, including the much-studied flash-lag effect, demonstrate that neural signals coding for motion and position interact in the visual system. One interpretation of these illusions is that they are the consequence of motion extrapolation mechanisms in the early visual system. Here, we study th...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Johnson P,Davies S,Hogendoorn H

更新日期：2020-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied mechanisms underlying the crowding effect in indirect form vision by measuring recognition contrast sensitivity of a character with flankers to the left and right. Attentional and featural contributions to the effect can be separated by a new paradigm that distinguishes pattern location errors from pattern ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Strasburger H

更新日期：2005-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have shown that displacing specular highlights from their natural locations in images reduces perceived surface gloss. Here, we assessed the extent to which perceived gloss depends on congruence in the position and orientation of specular highlights relative to surface shape and the diffuse shading from which ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Kim J,Marlow P,Anderson BL

更新日期：2011-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Difficulties with walking are often reported following brain damage that causes a lateralized loss of awareness on one side. Whether lateralized loss of awareness has a direct causal impact on walking is unknown. A review of the literature on visually guided walking suggests several reasons why a lateralized loss of v...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Dunn MJ,Rushton SK

更新日期：2018-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements of area summation for luminance-modulated stimuli are typically confounded by variations in sensitivity across the retina. Recently we conducted a detailed analysis of sensitivity across the visual field (Baldwin, Meese, & Baker, 2012) and found it to be well described by a bilinear "witch's hat" function...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Baldwin AS,Meese TS

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Previously demonstrated learning effects in shifts of transient attention have only been shown to result in beneficial effects upon secondary discrimination tasks and affect landing points of express saccades. Can such learning result in more direct effects upon perception than previously demonstrated? Observers perfo...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Kristjánsson A

更新日期：2009-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Performance on interval timing is often explained by the assumption of an internal clock based on neural counting. According to this account, a neural pacemaker generates pulses, and the number of pulses relating to a physical time interval is recorded by a counter. Thus, the number of accumulated pulses is the intern...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Rammsayer TH,Verner M

更新日期：2015-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Macular degeneration and related visual disorders greatly limit foveal function, resulting in reliance on the peripheral retina for tasks requiring fine spatial vision. Here we investigate stimulus manipulations intended to maximize peripheral acuity for dynamic targets. Acuity was measured using a single interval ori...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Patrick JA,Roach NW,McGraw PV

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between attention and awareness and the processing of visual information outside of attention and awareness remain controversial issues. We employed the motion aftereffect (MAE) illusion and continuous flash suppression (CFS) to study the behavioral effects of unseen and unattended visual motion. The ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Kaunitz L,Fracasso A,Melcher D

更新日期：2011-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Our ability to process numerical and temporal information is an evolutionary skill thought to originate from a common magnitude system. In line with a common magnitude system, we have previously shown that adaptation to duration alters numerosity perception. Here, we investigate two hypotheses on how duration influenc...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Tsouli A,van der Smagt MJ,Dumoulin SO,Pas SFT

更新日期：2019-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Symbolic numbers (e.g., "2") acquire their meaning by becoming linked to the core nonsymbolic quantities they represent (e.g., two items). However, the extent to which symbolic and nonsymbolic information converges onto the same internal core representations of quantity remains a point of considerable debate. As nearl...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Chapman CS,Gallivan JP,Wood DK,Milne JL,Ansari D,Culham JC,Goodale MA

更新日期：2014-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the orientation of line segments and simple shapes is a well-studied area of vision, little is known about geometric factors that influence perceived orientation of complex multipart shapes. The study of these factors is of interest because it allows for an insight into the basic problem of how local geometri...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Cohen EH,Singh M

更新日期：2006-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Kittens reared with mixed daily visual input that consists of episodes of normal (binocular) exposure followed by abnormal (monocular) exposure can develop normal visual acuity in both eyes if the length of the former exposure exceeds a critical amount. However, later studies of the tuning of cells in primary visual c...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Mitchell DE,Kennie J,Schwarzkopf DS,Sengpiel F

更新日期：2009-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated how the visual-motor system recruits a novel visual feedback cue for a manual control task. We presented conditions in which an arbitrary cue (color) was coupled with task-relevant feedback (position or velocity), and measured the effect of the novel cue on performance. Participants used a joystick to ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Li WO,Saunders JA,Li L

更新日期：2009-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate a new type of interaction between suprathreshold color (chromatic) and luminance contrast in the context of binocular vision. When two isoluminant colored disks of identical hue but different saturations are presented to different eyes, the apparent saturation of the resulting "dichoptic" mix is close t...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Kingdom FA,Libenson L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In early retinotopic areas of the human visual system, information from the left and right visual hemifields (VHFs) is processed contralaterally in two hemispheres. Despite this segregation, we have the perceptual experience of a unified, coherent, and uninterrupted single visual field. How exactly the visual system i...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Akin B,Ozdem C,Eroglu S,Keskin DT,Fang F,Doerschner K,Kersten D,Boyaci H

更新日期：2014-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:This work examines how context may influence the detection of changes in flickering scenes. Each scene contained two changes that were matched for low-level visual salience. One of the changes was of high interest to the meaning of the scene, and the other was of lower interest. High-interest changes were more readily...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Kelley TA,Chun MM,Chua KP

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repetitive eye movements are known to produce motion aftereffect (MAE) when made to track a moving stimulus. Explanations typically centre on the retinal motion created in the peripheral visual field by the eye movement. This retinal motion is thought to induce perceived motion in the central test, either through the ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Freeman TC,Sumnall JH,Snowden RJ

更新日期：2003-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined whether motion blur accompanying apparent motion (AM) affects the shape of a stimulus presented in the motion path. In a two-alternative forced-choice procedure, observers judged the shape of a Gaussian test stimulus flashed in the path of motion, relative to a reference stimulus, which was a circular Gaus...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Khuu SK,Phu J,Khambiye S

更新日期：2010-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of apparent motion in random dot patterns requires correlation across time and space. It has been difficult to study the temporal requirements for the correlation step because motion detection also depends on temporal filtering preceding correlation and on integration at the next levels. To specifically stud...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Bours RJ,Stuur S,Lankheet MJ

更新日期：2007-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that different types of aberration defocus, coma, and secondary astigmatism affect reading performance via different mechanisms. In this paper, we show the contrary result that, for identification of isolated letters, the effects of rendering different types of aberration can be described by a sin...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Young LK,Love GD,Smithson HE

更新日期：2013-06-20 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：:We investigated the role of global optic flow for visual-motor adaptation of walking direction. In an immersive virtual environment, observers walked to a circular target lying on either a homogeneous ground plane (target-motion condition) or a textured ground plane (ground-flow condition). During adaptation trials, w...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Saunders JA,Durgin FH

更新日期：2011-03-22 00:00:00