Learning to see stereokinetic effects.

abstract：:We investigated the effect of wearing glasses and sunglasses on the perception of social traits from faces and on face matching. Participants rated images of people wearing no glasses, glasses and sunglasses on three social traits (trustworthiness, competence and attractiveness). Wearing sunglasses reduced ratings of ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Graham DL,Ritchie KL

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The word-length effect may indicate whether reading is proceeding in an efficient whole-word fashion or by serial letter processing. If it is an index of an orientation-dependent expert reading mechanism, then it should show an inversion effect, with a large difference between upright and upside-down text that is spec...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Björnström LE,Hills C,Hanif H,Barton JJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:It is purported that the local perceptual style characteristic of those with autism results in them reproducing line drawings in a more localised manner than comparison individuals. Here we report an exception to this: the drawing strategies of those with autism were more global. When reproducing line drawings depicti...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Sheppard E,Ropar D,Mitchell P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Poggendorff effect is seen as misalignment of two obliques, or misprojection of one, when the obliques are placed outside a set of parallel lines. To understand better the mechanisms behind this effect, the orientation of the lines which are normally parallel was systematically manipulated. The results indicate th...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Greene E,Pavlov G

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Static figurative images implying human body movements observed for shorter and longer durations affect the perception of time. This study examined whether images of static geometric shapes would affect the perception of time. Undergraduate participants observed two Optical Art paintings by Bridget Riley for 9 or 36 s...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Nather FC,Mecca FF,Bueno JL

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:'Preattentive' vision is typically considered to include several low-level processes, including the perception of depth from binocular disparity and motion parallax. However, doubt was cast on this model when it was shown that a secondary attentional task can modulate the motion aftereffect (Chaudhuri, 1990 Nature 344...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Rose D,Bradshaw MF,Hibbard PB

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between apparent size and apparent distance is given by Emmert's law, which states that a retinal image is proportional in size to the distance of the surface it is projected upon. This principle also applies to retinal afterimages in that they, too, will change in apparent size if distance cues sugge...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Bross M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental issue in the study of human vision is the accuracy with which observers can perceive the three-dimensional structures of objects in the environment. The formal mapping from physical to perceived space is considered as a geometric transformation, and the literature is reviewed to identify which aspects of...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Todd JT,Tittle JS,Norman JF

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has often been reported that, in the absence of information about the direction of illumination, people interpret surface convexities and concavities in accordance with the assumption that illumination comes from above. However, 'above' could mean with reference to gravity, the head or the retina. Yonas et al repor...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Howard IP,Bergström SS,Ohmi M

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subjects viewed the Kanizsa triangle under conditions of visual masking. Depending on the type of mask employed, the triangle could be perceived when the inducing discs were not phenomenally present, or the discs could be seen with the triangle not present. These findings suggest that no single set of mechanisms, phys...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Gellatly AR

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:First, we criticize the validity of the principle of lateral inhibition. Second, on the basis of illusory phenomena and stabilized retinal images, we point out that the retina does not code the absolute luminance; the retina forwards a relative luminance sketch towards higher levels of the visual system. However, at t...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Geier J,Hudák M

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:A sudden luminance increment on a moving stimulus was perceived significantly along the trajectory, in the direction of motion, from its displayed position. A nonlinear relationship with stimulus speed, for a Fröhlich-like illusion, but not for the luminance-increment illusion, challenges certain models of spatial mis...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Habota T,Chappell M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel grouping and interpolation effect induced by flickering stimuli is described: a matrix of flickering elements forms stick-like clusters, then the clusters gradually dissociate back into the discrete elements within a few seconds. On continuous viewing, this flicker-induced grouping and interpolation repeatedly...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Sasaki H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The threshold of sensitivity to movement could be governed by mechanisms that are sensitive either to change in spatial position, or directly to the movement itself. The use of spatially complex patterns (random-dot patterns) has been suggested to eliminate the former strategy allowing examination of the movement dete...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Snowden RJ

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated here how partly occluded stimuli affect early and late prehension kinematics. Stimuli were pictures of partly occluded cylindrical objects with indentations or protrusions at regular intervals along the contour. They diverged into two plausible completions: a local completion, comprising a linear conti...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Lommertzen J,Van Lier R,Meulenbroek RG

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stereoscopic processing of horizontal and vertical disparities was assessed by measuring how the stereoscopic appearance of test dots near the fixation point was influenced by inducing stimuli in the near periphery. The inducing stimuli were differentially magnified in the two eyes and varied in horizontal eccentricit...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Pettet MW

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cricket or baseball fielder can run so as to arrive at just the right place at just the right time to catch a ball. It is shown that if the fielder runs so that d2(tan alpha)/dt2 = 0, where alpha is the angle of elevation of gaze from fielder to ball, then the ball will generally be intercepted before it hits the gr...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Dienes Z,McLeod P

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown in several studies that the selection of letters or numerals from an array can occur efficiently if criteria such as location, colour, shape, or size are used. It is also known that there are at least two components of spatial attention, the transient exogenous and the sustained endogenous. An intere...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Laarni J,Häkkinen J

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within (and between) cultures, people tend to agree on which parts of colour space are easiest to name and what the names for these regions are. Therefore it is likely that the manipulation of ease of naming (nameability) of colours should change performance in tasks where categorisation by colour name is important. M...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Guest S,Van Laar D

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding software engineers' behaviour plays a vital role in the software development industry. It also provides helpful guidelines for teaching and learning. In this article, we conduct a study of the extrafoveal vision and its role in information processing. This is a new perspective on source code comprehensio...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Orlov PA,Bednarik R

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：:We show a cylindrical projection of the human head. This projection is ambiguous with respect to head pose. Viewing such a projection produces perceptual competition for a few discrete views. ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Kersten D,Troje NF,Bülthoff HH

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cosmetics alter social perceptions, and prior work suggests that cosmetic use may aid female intrasexual competition, making women appear more dominant to other women but more prestigious to other men. It is unclear whether these findings reflect general improvements in perceptions of traits related to women's dominan...

journal_title：Perception

authors： James EA,Jenkins S,Watkins CD

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The perceptually bistable character of point-light walkers has been examined in three experiments. A point-light figure without explicit depth cues constitutes a perfectly ambiguous stimulus: from all viewpoints, multiple interpretations are possible concerning the depth orientation of the figure. In the first experim...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Vanrie J,Dekeyser M,Verfaillie K

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Luminance has been found to play a modulating role in the processes of many visual tasks. However, the mechanisms underlying the modulation role of luminance have been little studied, and the conclusions have been controversial. Here, using a dichoptic viewing paradigm by varying the luminance in one eye while measuri...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Li L,Yu Y,Zhou Y

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outline drawings in a raised form were made by a blind woman, Tracy, who has been blind from very early in life. Highly practiced in drawing, she reports she is largely self-taught. To invoke matters of projection, she was asked to represent an object with faces slanting away from the observer, a fixed array from diff...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Kennedy JM,Igor J

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is some controversy concerning the youngest age at which an infant will habituate to a visual stimulus or will prefer a novel to a familiar pattern. One suggestion has been that apparently successful reports of habituation and dishabituation in the newborn baby are attributable to retinal adaptation. This interp...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Slater A,Morison V,Rose D

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human observers can correctly attribute changes in the appearance of a scene either to changes in the incident light or to changes in the spectral-reflectance properties of the scene. This ability was assessed as a function of the time course of illuminant and spectral-reflectance changes. Observers were presented wit...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Linnell KJ,Foster DH

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00